Verdict
interactivebrokers.co.uk 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 | Official Interactive Brokers (U.K.) Limited landing/home page describing account types, trading platforms, pricing, regulatory status and disclosures. Contains links for opening accounts and logging in; shows regulatory registrations and risk statements. |
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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% confidenceAbuseIPDB, 1 report; shared hosting inflates reports | Clear |
| Domain age | 28 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Never archivedNo public history of this site | Watch |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by DigiCert EV RSA CA G2 | 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).
- VirusTotal and Google Safe Browsing had no flags for this domain; its hosting IP carries AbuseIPDB reports below the confidence level TrustSniffer treats as a flag.
Full analysis
Overview
This website is the U.K. landing page for Interactive Brokers, presenting an online brokerage service with account opening and login functions, trading platforms, pricing information, regulatory disclosures, funding options, and investment-risk warnings for individual and institutional clients.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No confirmed phishing, impersonation, blacklist, or conflicting legal-identity signals were observed. The homepage is consistent with a corporate financial-services platform and contains no identified fraud indicators. One abuse report concerns a shared hosting-provider address rather than the website specifically, carries zero confidence, and is therefore not a meaningful site-level indicator. The overall evidence supports an apparently legitimate, established website, while the real-world operator connection remains likely rather than independently verified.
- The homepage presents a corporate brokerage interface with account-opening and login functions and no detected phishing or brand-impersonation indicators.
- Domain registration records show creation on 1998-05-22 and an age of 28.24 years.
- The single abuse report is attributed to shared Akamai infrastructure, with subject IP 184.86.103.223 and confidence score 0.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site identifies itself as Interactive Brokers U.K. Limited and presents account categories, trading execution, custody, commissions, margin rates, funding information, regulatory references, and investment-risk disclosures. Its content is substantive and consistent with an established brokerage model rather than a promotional deposit scheme; however, the available evidence does not independently verify a license number or establish the real-world operator identity. A third-party broker reference matches the domain to Interactive Brokers Hong Kong Limited and records regulated status and a license, but this remains contextual reputational information rather than a legal or regulatory determination for the U.K. entity. The reference includes withdrawal-related exposure language, although the recorded exposure level is not high. Registration through CSC Corporate Domains, Inc. is an additional administrative signal consistent with a corporate website.
- The homepage title identifies “Interactive Brokers U.K. Limited” and links to regulatory reports, support, pricing, account opening, and login pages.
- The homepage states that investment losses may exceed the original investment and presents regulatory and disclosure material.
- The site is served from AS20940 (AKAMAI-ASN1 - Akamai International B.V., NL).
- The transport certificate is issued by DigiCert EV RSA CA G2 at EV validation level for IBG LLC, valid to 2027-02-13.
What to Verify Next
Before credential or funding interactions, independently confirm the applicable regulated entity and official contact routes through authoritative sources reached independently of the website. Account terms, margin and fee schedules, withdrawal procedures, and available payment protections should be reviewed against the intended account type and jurisdiction. Any account-opening or login activity should be initiated from a separately verified official channel and monitored for unexpected destination changes.
- The homepage links to the FCA and provides regulatory-reporting and risk-disclosure areas for independent comparison.
- The pricing and account pages provide the relevant fee, margin, and account-type material for review before account funding.
- The support and fund-your-account pages identify the operational areas that should be matched to independently sourced official contact details.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is high trust and low risk for ordinary interaction. Converging long-term domain continuity, clean external reputation, substantive brokerage content, and enterprise transport controls are consistent with an established, apparently legitimate website. Operator identity is likely but not independently verified, so legitimacy should be understood as evidence-consistent rather than proven.
Infrastructure Integrity
Akamai CDN and WAF protection fronts the website; the observed addresses are CDN edge servers, and no origin-server candidate was identified. This reduces direct exposure of the origin infrastructure and is a mitigating control, but it is not by itself proof of legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Ordinary browsing is proportionate, while credential or payment activity should follow independent identity, terms, contact-channel, and payment-protection checks before material commitments are made.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-10 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
No rule findings contributed to this verdict.
Signals weighed against the site
- AbuseIPDB: 1 report on hosting IP 184.86.103.223 (Akamai Technologies, Inc., Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit), 0% confidence. The reports are attributed to shared infrastructure, not specifically to this website.
Identity verification
| Status | LIKELY |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 76/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 76% |
- Trusted social count=2
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 interactivebrokers.co.uk.
- The request stayed on interactivebrokers.co.uk. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under CSC Corporate Domains, Inc. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by net., across 6 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2028-05-22. Clear
- It is hosted on AKAMAI-ASN1, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | CSC Corporate Domains, Inc |
|---|---|
| Hosting | AKAMAI-ASN1 - Akamai International B.V., NL |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 184.86.103.223 |
| Name servers | a1-180.akam.net., a10-65.akam.net., a11-65.akam.net., a26-66.akam.net., a28-64.akam.net., a9-65.akam.net. |
| SSL issuer | DigiCert EV RSA CA G2 |
| SSL expiry | 2027-02-13 |
| Domain age | 28.24 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2028-05-22 |
| Archive first seen | Not available |
| Archive snapshots | 0 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 0 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0% confidence, 1 report | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about interactivebrokers.co.uk 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.