Verdict
indiatv.in appears legitimate.
Our checks found nothing pointing to fraud. Ordinary care still applies when you pay or sign in.
| What this site appears to be | Hindi-language news portal covering politics, entertainment, sports, business, technology, health and lifestyle. Page contains headlines, article links, advertisements and a notifications subscription prompt (iZooto). No evident financial solicitations or credential-harvesting elements in provided HTML. |
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Evidence status and limitations
Evidence completeness: UNKNOWN
- The real-world operator identity was not independently verified.
- Module-level completeness metadata is unavailable for this legacy report.
At a glance
The checks that decide most of this verdict.
| Malware engines | None flagged itVirusTotal | Clear |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 22 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Never archivedNo public history of this site | Watch |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by Amazon RSA 2048 M01 | Noted |
The page as captured
No screenshot is retained for this report.
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Domain age: more than 10 years (registration continuity).
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
- The operator behind the site could not be independently connected to a real-world brand or person.
Full analysis
Overview
The website is a Hindi-language news and media portal presenting visitors with current reporting and multimedia across politics, national and international affairs, entertainment, sports, business, technology, health, lifestyle, religion, and astrology. Its apparent business model is ad-supported journalism supplemented by app distribution, notification subscriptions, and promoted or branded content.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed. The homepage presents a coherent news-media service, with substantial editorial content, article navigation, advertising, and no evident financial solicitation, credential-harvesting form, wallet connection, or impersonation signal. Automated interaction did produce dynamic-page indicators, including inline scripts, external activity, DOM changes, console errors, and a notification prompt; these are reasonably attributable to advertising, analytics, and subscription functionality because no sensitive form or malicious destination was observed. External reputation checks were clean, with no malicious or suspicious detections reported, and the site has an established global traffic footprint.
- Homepage: Hindi news categories, article headlines, multimedia content, advertising, and an iZooto notification-subscription prompt are present; no login form or sensitive form was detected.
- Homepage behavior: 2 successful observation runs recorded 21 external XHR requests, 11 external POST requests, 2 suspicious-inline-script observations, a maximum DOM difference of 2015, and 8 console errors, without hidden forms, password submissions, wallet activity, or clipboard activity.
- External reputation: 0 malicious detections, 0 suspicious detections, and no Google Safe Browsing malicious result were recorded; traffic rank was 20262 and the domain was in the top 1 million.
- Registration record: Registered 2005 (~21.5 years old) through GoDaddy.com, LLC, with an expiration date of 2028-02-16.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site appears to operate as a general news publisher rather than a financial or otherwise regulated service. The available pages do not present a licensing number or regulated-service authorization, so any institutional engagement should distinguish the site’s apparent editorial legitimacy from independently verified corporate identity or regulatory status. The registration record names Independent News Service Pvt Ltd (INDIA TV), which is a useful identity lead but does not independently prove that the website operator and the named entity are the same. No separate broker or financial-services match was identified. The site’s established registration continuity, clean reputation, valid transport encryption, and mainstream hosting support an evidence-consistent legitimacy assessment.
- Registration record: Registrar is GoDaddy.com, LLC; registrant organization is Independent News Service Pvt Ltd (INDIA TV).
- Hosting telemetry: Served from AS16509, Amazon.com, Inc. (AMAZON-02), US.
- Transport security: TLS certificate issued by Amazon RSA 2048 M01, validation level DV, valid to 2026-12-31.
- Homepage: No license claim, license number, or regulated-service authorization is presented in the supplied content.
What to Verify Next
Before credential or payment interactions, an enterprise should independently match the publisher’s legal identity and official contact channels against authoritative corporate or media records. Where a contractual, advertising, data-sharing, or other regulated engagement is contemplated, the relevant entity’s registration, contractual authority, privacy obligations, and any sector-specific permissions should be confirmed through independent records. Account registration should use a unique password and normal enterprise authentication controls, with payment activity subject to ordinary payment-protection and dispute procedures.
- Homepage: A “Sign in” navigation element is visible, but no login form was present in the captured page.
- Business-model evidence: The site identifies in practice as an ad-supported news and multimedia service rather than a financial platform.
- Identity evidence: The publisher name displayed in the site title is “India TV Hindi,” while the registration record provides the separate legal-entity lead noted above.
Summary Verdict
Available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate website and supports a high-trust, low-risk posture for its apparent news-media purpose. The classification is strong, while the real-world operator connection remains independently unverified; legitimacy should therefore be regarded as apparent rather than proven.
Infrastructure Integrity
The website is protected by Amazon CloudFront CDN/WAF infrastructure, with observed addresses operating as CDN edge servers and no origin candidate identified in the analysis. This is a mitigating exposure-control measure, not independent proof of legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Normal browsing is proportionate to the assessed posture; before submitting credentials, entering payment details, or establishing a business relationship, ordinary independent identity, policy, and payment-protection checks should be completed.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-13 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
No rule findings contributed to this verdict.
Identity verification
| Status | UNVERIFIED |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 30/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 50% |
- No on-site identity signals detected
Identity verification measures whether the site can be independently connected to a real-world brand or person. It is separate from the classification confidence.
What TrustSniffer observed
First-party facts recorded during the assessment of indiatv.in.
- The request stayed on indiatv.in. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under GoDaddy.com, LLC. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by awsdns-39.com, across 4 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2028-02-16. Clear
- It is hosted on AMAZON-02, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | GoDaddy.com, LLC |
|---|---|
| Hosting | AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 2600:9000:2375:ce00:11:840b:5940:93a1 |
| Name servers | ns-313.awsdns-39.com, ns-714.awsdns-25.net, ns-1898.awsdns-45.co.uk, ns-1424.awsdns-50.org |
| SSL issuer | Amazon RSA 2048 M01 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-12-31 |
| Domain age | 21.50 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2028-02-16 |
| Archive first seen | Not available |
| Archive snapshots | 0 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 0 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about indiatv.in at assessment time. It is a starting point for your own judgement, not a guarantee: a high score means the signals were consistent with a legitimately operated site, a low or critical score means several risk patterns were present.
TrustSniffer assesses a website from the evidence it can collect at a point in time: domain registration and age, hosting and certificate, the content the site served, and third-party reputation feeds. A score is a summary of that evidence, not a guarantee and not a legal finding. There is no human rating and no user review in it. A site can change after it is assessed.