Verdict
mediamarkt.nl 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 | National electronics retailer site (MediaMarkt NL) listing broad product categories, deals, services and store information. Primary function is ecommerce and information for shoppers. |
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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 | 27 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 20002548 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by GeoTrust TLS RSA CA G1 | 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 2000.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
This website is the Dutch MediaMarkt online electronics retailer, presenting consumer electronics, appliances, promotional offers, delivery and installation services, memberships, and store information for shoppers.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed. The homepage presents a coherent, conventional retail business model with broad product navigation, customer-service functions, store information, and account registration rather than financial, investment, or other abuse-prone mechanics. Available reputation checks found no malicious or suspicious classification, no phishing or impersonation indicators, and no reported abuse associated with the observed infrastructure. The site’s long-running archival continuity and established public presence further support an evidence-consistent interpretation as an established website, although the real-world operator identity remains independently unverified.
- Domain registration record: registered 1999-08-19, approximately 26.99 years old.
- Web archive: 2,548 snapshots spanning 2000-03-04 to 2025-05-13, with 26 years tracked.
- Homepage analysis identified no brand-impersonation, phishing, hidden-form, wallet, or malicious-script indicators.
- External reputation checks recorded 0 malicious detections, 0 suspicious detections, and 0 abuse reports; the domain is ranked 37,962 globally and is within the top 1 million.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The available content is consistent with a national consumer-electronics retailer, and no third-party regulated-service claim is present. The site does not present a licensing authority or license number in the supplied homepage content; for a retail merchant, this is primarily a disclosure and merchant-identity verification matter rather than evidence of deception. The apparent MediaMarkt identity is supported by the site’s coherent content and technical continuity, but it should not be treated as independently proven operator identity. A reputable domain registrar and organizationally validated transport certificate provide additional infrastructure context without establishing the legal entity behind the website.
- Domain telemetry: registrar is united-domains GmbH; creation date is 1999-08-19T12:03:27Z.
- Hosting telemetry: served from AS13335, CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US.
- TLS telemetry: GeoTrust TLS RSA CA G1, OV validation, valid through 2027-02-22.
- Homepage content identifies the site as “De elektronica retailer van Nederland | MediaMarkt”; no licensing authority or license number is displayed in the supplied content.
What to Verify Next
Before credential or payment interactions, an organization should independently confirm the merchant’s legal identity, review the applicable returns and warranty terms, and ensure that payment protections are available for the intended transaction. Any licensing or registration expectation arising from the specific service being purchased should be checked against the relevant official registry. Contact and support channels should be confirmed through an independently obtained official route rather than relying solely on an embedded page reference.
- The homepage provides customer-service navigation, store selection, and store-information functions that can be compared with independently sourced merchant details.
- The site exposes an account-registration function, making credential-handling and account-recovery terms relevant to pre-transaction review.
- The business model is physical-goods retail with delivery, installation, memberships, and promotional offers, so return, warranty, fulfilment, and payment-protection terms are the pertinent verification areas.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is high trust and low risk, with available evidence consistent with an established, apparently legitimate website. No scam, phishing, impersonation, or identity-contradiction signal was identified, but the operator’s real-world identity is not independently verified.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is fronted by Cloudflare CDN/WAF infrastructure, with observed CDN edge addresses and a potential origin candidate. This architecture is a mitigating control against direct origin exposure and common network abuse, but it is not, by itself, proof of merchant legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Normal browsing and ordinary retail consideration are proportionate to the assessed posture; credential or payment use should follow the standard independent merchant-identity, returns, and payment-protection checks appropriate for an online purchase.
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 mediamarkt.nl.
- The request stayed on mediamarkt.nl. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under united-domains GmbH. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by akam.net, across 6 name servers. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2000-03-04. Clear
- It is hosted on CLOUDFLARENET, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | united-domains GmbH |
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| Hosting | CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 172.65.200.189 |
| Name servers | a18-64.akam.net, a10-67.akam.net, a1-250.akam.net, a9-67.akam.net, a5-66.akam.net, a4-65.akam.net |
| SSL issuer | GeoTrust TLS RSA CA G1 |
| SSL expiry | 2027-02-22 |
| Domain age | 26.99 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | Not available |
| Archive first seen | 2000-03-04 |
| Archive snapshots | 2548 |
| 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 mediamarkt.nl 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.