Verdict
ktv.jp 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 Kansai Television (関西テレビ放送) site page with program schedule, news items, corporate information, events, and shopping notices. Contains Japanese-language content and cookie/privacy banner. |
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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 | 25 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 20015000 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YE1 | 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).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2001.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
This Japanese-language regional television broadcaster website presents Kansai Television programming schedules, news, dramas, entertainment, sports, events, corporate information, recruitment, privacy and security policies, and related shopping notices, with an apparent business model based on broadcasting, advertising, sponsored content, events, and program-related commerce.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed. The site’s content is coherent with a regional broadcaster: it provides program listings, news, presenter information, event material, corporate pages, privacy information, and shopping notices, without cryptocurrency, investment, or other abuse-oriented features. A behavioral review observed hidden forms and some external network activity, but no login form, password-exfiltration form, wallet connection, cloaking, phishing indicator, or confirmed brand impersonation. A separate similarity heuristic associated the site with “t.me” through a hyphen-variant rationale; this is not evidence of impersonation and is inconsistent with the site’s substantive Kansai Television content. External reputation checks found no malicious or suspicious detections and no abuse reports.
- The homepage is titled “関西テレビ放送 カンテレ” and contains broadcaster-specific schedules, news, entertainment, events, corporate information, and shopping content.
- The domain was registered on 2001-03-26 and is approximately 25.39 years old.
- Web archives contain 5,000 snapshots spanning 2001–2024, with 24 years tracked.
- The homepage contains no login form, sensitive form, wallet-connect function, or crypto-related token signal.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site provides corporate information, recruitment, privacy, information-security, external-transmission, copyright, link-policy, and antisocial-forces-exclusion pages, which is consistent with an established media organization. The real-world operator identity remains unverified independently, so the on-site association with Kansai Television should be treated as apparent rather than proven. The reviewed material does not present a financial or other regulatory license number; for a broadcaster and its ordinary informational services, this is a disclosure point for verification rather than evidence of a scam. The transport and hosting posture is technically conventional, with a valid domain-validated certificate and Amazon hosting.
- The site’s corporate-information area includes privacy, information-security, copyright, recruitment, sustainability, and antisocial-forces-exclusion materials.
- The site is served through AS16509, Amazon.com, Inc. (AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US).
- TLS uses issuer YE1 with DV validation and is valid through 2026-09-11.
- The available third-party broker dataset contains no matching broker signal.
What to Verify Next
Before credential or payment interactions, an organization should independently confirm that the relevant corporate entity and contact channels correspond to Kansai Television through an offline or separately sourced route. Any purchase arising from the shopping area should be assessed against the identified seller, applicable return terms, delivery conditions, and payment-protection arrangements rather than relying solely on the broadcaster’s presentation. Where a regulated activity is proposed beyond ordinary broadcasting or retail, the applicable registry and authorization should be checked directly.
- The site exposes a “ご意見・お問い合わせ” contact function and separate corporate-information pages.
- The homepage identifies shopping as “カンテレSHOPPING” and includes program-related commerce notices.
- The site publishes privacy, cookie, external-transmission, and information-security materials relevant to ordinary site use.
Summary Verdict
Available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate website with a low-risk trust posture. Its long operating history, substantial archival continuity, coherent broadcaster content, clean external reputation, and stable technical presentation support the high-trust classification, while independent confirmation of the real-world operator remains outstanding.
Infrastructure Integrity
The website is protected by a CDN/WAF layer, with observed edge infrastructure and a potential origin candidate. This protective architecture reduces direct exposure of the underlying service and is a mitigating technical control, but it does not independently establish operator identity or legitimacy.
- CDN/WAF protection is present, with one observed edge IP and one potential origin candidate.
- The observed edge address is 54.150.36.123.
- The infrastructure resolution status is resolved, and the CDN is marked as trusted.
Closing Assessment
Ordinary informational browsing is proportionate to the evidence; credentials or payments should follow independent confirmation of the operator, applicable terms, and available payment protections.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-11 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 ktv.jp.
- The request stayed on ktv.jp. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by ad.jp, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-03-31. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2001-07-10. Clear
- It is hosted on AMAZON-02, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Not available |
|---|---|
| Hosting | AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 54.150.36.123 |
| Name servers | managed-ns01.mcnet.ad.jp, managed-ns02.mcnet.ad.jp |
| SSL issuer | YE1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-09-11 |
| Domain age | 25.39 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-03-31 |
| Archive first seen | 2001-07-10 |
| Archive snapshots | 5000 |
| 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 ktv.jp 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.