Verdict
mediasquare.fr 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 | Media Square appears to be a French digital advertising marketplace offering premium publisher inventory and programmatic tools (AdMe). The page contains marketing copy, partner references and legal/mentions; no forms, no financial investment solicitations, and no credential harvesting detected in the provided content. |
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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 | 8.7 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2001545 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: 3 to 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
Media Square is a French digital advertising marketplace that connects advertisers with premium publisher inventory across web, mobile, tablet, desktop, and connected television, using programmatic tools such as the AdMe platform and managed insertion orders to facilitate digital campaigns.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed: the supplied evidence contains no phishing, impersonation, blacklist, malicious-reputation, or credential-harvesting indicators. The homepage presents a coherent corporate marketplace model rather than an investment solicitation, and its marketing claims—including “400+” media sites and applications, “1 billion” advertising contacts available daily, and reach of “9/10” internet users monthly—are commercial assertions that are not independently substantiated in the supplied material, but they do not by themselves indicate impersonation. The site’s apparent legitimacy is further supported by sustained archival presence, a registered domain, and clean external threat screening.
- The homepage contains no forms, login interface, sensitive-data collection, financial investment solicitation, or credential-harvesting mechanism.
- The homepage promotes Media Square’s publisher marketplace, programmatic advertising, brand-safety positioning, and AdMe platform.
- The domain was registered in 2017 and is approximately 8.66 years old; the registrar is OVH.
- The domain has 545 archive snapshots spanning 2001–2026, with 26 years tracked; external reputation checks recorded 0 malicious and 0 suspicious detections.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site identifies legal, privacy, contact, and “mentions” sections, but the supplied content contains no stated regulatory license, registration number, or licensing authority. For a digital advertising marketplace, this is a disclosure point requiring ordinary business and contracting verification rather than evidence of a scam. The available evidence is consistent with an established site, while the real-world operator remains independently unverified. No broker-reputational match was identified, which is contextual information and not a regulatory determination.
- The homepage navigation exposes “Contact,” “E-privacy,” and legal/mentions content.
- The site describes publisher relationships and membership in the Alliance Digitale and the Institut de Recherche, as presented in the homepage content.
- The site’s transport encryption uses a valid DV certificate issued by YE1, valid to 2026-10-23.
What to Verify Next
Before credential or payment interactions, independently confirm the contracting entity named in the legal and commercial documentation, validate any claimed publisher or alliance relationships through independently sourced channels, and review the applicable insertion-order, privacy, cancellation, and payment-protection terms. For material transactions, confirmation through an independently obtained business contact route is appropriate.
- The homepage provides a “Contact” route and references legal/mentions content for review.
- The commercial model involves advertiser–publisher transactions and managed insertion orders, making the contracting party and applicable service terms the relevant verification points.
- The site presents French-language and English-language navigation, allowing the commercial and privacy disclosures to be compared across available versions.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is high trust and low risk, with evidence consistent with an established, apparently legitimate corporate marketplace. No contradictory indicators were identified, but the operator’s real-world identity is not independently verified, so legitimacy should be understood as evidence-consistent rather than proven.
Infrastructure Integrity
The website benefits from CDN/WAF protection, which mitigates direct exposure of the hosting environment but is only a supporting security control, not proof of legitimacy. The observed infrastructure resolves to an OVH-hosted French environment, with the origin server not observable in this analysis.
- Served from AS16276 (OVH - OVH SAS, FR), edge IP 51.38.63.40, France.
- CDN/WAF protection is present; 1 edge IP was observed and 0 likely origin IPs were identified.
- TLS certificate: issuer YE1, validation level DV, valid to 2026-10-23.
Closing Assessment
Normal browsing and ordinary business engagement are proportionate to the current assessment, subject to independent confirmation of the contracting party and transaction terms before credentials or payment details are exchanged.
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.
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 mediasquare.fr.
- The request stayed on mediasquare.fr. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under OVH. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by anycast.me, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-05-07. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2001-03-31. Clear
- It is hosted on OVH, from a server in FR. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | OVH |
|---|---|
| Hosting | OVH - OVH SAS, FR |
| Country | FR |
| Server IP | 51.38.63.40 |
| Name servers | dns200.anycast.me, ns200.anycast.me |
| SSL issuer | YE1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-23 |
| Domain age | 8.66 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-05-07 |
| Archive first seen | 2001-03-31 |
| Archive snapshots | 545 |
| 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 mediasquare.fr 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.