Verdict
soccernews.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 | A Dutch football news website with broad coverage of leagues, transfers and videos. The site is ad-supported and displays gambling-related advertising and an extensive consent/vendor list for targeted ads. No login or credential-harvesting elements detected. |
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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 | 23 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 20041439 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by WE1 | 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 2004.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
What appears to be an established Dutch football-news publisher, Soccernews.nl presents visitors with coverage of domestic and international leagues, transfer news, match previews, videos, and betting-related content through an advertising-supported media model.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed: there were no phishing, impersonation, malicious-reputation, or credential-harvesting indicators in the supplied evidence. The homepage contains substantial football editorial content, links to mainstream social platforms, a newsletter form, and an age gate, but no login form, password field, hidden sensitive form, wallet connection, or external password submission. The observed external advertising and consent-related activity is consistent with the stated publishing model rather than an attempt to capture credentials. The site’s long, continuous historical presence and clean external reputation further support an apparently legitimate, established website, although the real-world operator identity is not independently verified.
- The homepage contains extensive football-news content covering leagues, transfers, competitions, previews, and video, with no login or credential-harvesting form detected.
- The homepage’s forms are limited to a newsletter and age/consent interactions; hidden forms, password submissions, wallet-drainer activity, and clipboard hijacking were not detected.
- Domain continuity dates to 2004, with an age of 22.54 years.
- External reputation checks recorded 0 malicious findings, 0 suspicious findings, and 0 abuse reports; the site was within the top 1,000,000 sites by traffic.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site’s apparent business is media publishing rather than the direct provision of a regulated financial service. Its revenue model includes display advertising, programmatic advertising, affiliate or bookmaker referrals, and targeted advertising managed through an extensive consent/vendor framework. Betting-related advertising and football prediction content create a need to distinguish editorial coverage from any regulated gambling service promoted through advertisements. No gambling, financial, or other regulatory license is claimed in the supplied site evidence, so regulatory status is not established by the website itself. A third-party broker dataset produced no match; that is contextual reputation information and not a licensing determination. The available evidence is therefore consistent with an established, apparently legitimate publisher, while operator identity and any promoted third-party service should remain independently verified.
- The homepage identifies the site as a Dutch football-news publication and presents advertising-supported editorial content, video, and betting-related advertising.
- The consent interface includes an extensive vendor list for targeted advertising; the page also uses an age gate.
- Archive history records 1,439 snapshots spanning 2004–2026, across 23 years tracked.
- Hosting telemetry records AS13335, CLOUDFLARENET – Cloudflare, Inc.; the TLS certificate is issued by WE1 at DV validation level and is valid to 2026-09-29.
What to Verify Next
Before credential or payment interactions, an interested party should independently confirm the publisher’s legal operator and official contact channels, review the applicable privacy, terms, and advertising disclosures, and confirm that any bookmaker or gambling service reached through advertising is separately licensed in the relevant jurisdiction. Payment-protection and return-policy checks should be applied to any commercial transaction, even though the supplied evidence describes the site primarily as a publisher rather than a direct merchant.
- The supplied page analysis identifies no claimed license authority or license number.
- The site’s stated revenue model includes affiliate or bookmaker referrals, making the identity and regulatory status of advertised third parties a separate verification matter.
- Social links are present across Facebook, X, Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok, providing independent channels against which official contact details can be compared.
Summary Verdict
Soccernews.nl has a high-trust, low-risk posture and the available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate sports-media website. No scam, phishing, impersonation, or other direct contradiction was identified, but the operator’s real-world identity is not independently verified.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is protected by Cloudflare’s CDN/WAF infrastructure, with observed traffic terminating on Cloudflare edge addresses rather than an exposed origin. This is a mitigating security control that supports transport and exposure management, but it is not, by itself, proof of legitimacy. The observed infrastructure was associated with AS13335 and Cloudflare, Inc. in the United States.
Closing Assessment
Normal browsing and ordinary site functions are proportionate to the available risk posture; independent merchant-identity, service-provider, return-policy, and payment-protection checks should be completed before credentials or payments are submitted.
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 | LIKELY |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 79/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 78% |
- Trusted social count=3
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 soccernews.nl.
- The request stayed on soccernews.nl. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2004-01-28. Clear
- It is hosted on CLOUDFLARENET, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Not available |
|---|---|
| Hosting | CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 2606:4700:3035::6815:4b80 |
| Name servers | Not available |
| SSL issuer | WE1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-09-29 |
| Domain age | 22.54 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | Not available |
| Archive first seen | 2004-01-28 |
| Archive snapshots | 1439 |
| 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 soccernews.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.