Verdict
sputnikfund.ru 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 Russian-language independent portal covering Sputnik Almetyevsk, a youth hockey club associated with the Youth Hockey League. It provides news, club history, player information, match schedules, statistics, analysis, interviews, and academy coverage. |
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Evidence status and limitations
Evidence completeness: UNKNOWN
- 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 | 1 months oldMost scam domains are under a year old | Risk |
| Web archive | Archived since 2021327 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: less than 1 year (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2021.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
The website is a Russian-language independent sports portal dedicated to the Sputnik Almetyevsk youth hockey club, presenting club news, history, player information, match schedules, statistics, tactical analysis, interviews, and academy coverage for an informational audience.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions, phishing indicators, brand-impersonation signals, or confirmed blacklist findings were observed. The homepage presents a coherent editorial purpose centered on Sputnik Almetyevsk and the Youth Hockey League, with no login form, sensitive-data form, wallet connection, external submission, or suspicious script behavior. One contact-channel integrity anomaly appears in the published contact details: “[email protected],” which is consistent with a deliverability-breaking typo or possible typosquat, but it is not sufficient to indicate impersonation or fraud.
- The homepage identifies the site as an independent Sputnik Almetyevsk hockey portal and lists news, history, players, matches, statistics, analysis, and interviews.
- Behavioral testing recorded zero external XHR/fetch activity, zero hidden forms, zero wallet-provider activity, and no cloaking or clipboard-hijacking behavior.
- External reputation checks recorded zero malicious and zero suspicious detections, with no blacklist or phishing finding.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site operates as an informational sports publication rather than a financial or regulated service. No license, registration number, or formal regulatory claim is presented in the supplied content; this is a limited disclosure matter relevant only if the operator represents itself as a formally incorporated or regulated entity. The available evidence otherwise supports an established, legitimate editorial presence, including sustained historical activity, clean external reputation, and stable technical operation.
- Archive history records 327 snapshots spanning 2021–2025, with five years tracked.
- The site is served on AS13335, operated by Cloudflare, Inc., US.
- The TLS certificate is issued by WE1 under domain validation and is valid through 2026-10-19.
- The site is listed within the global top one million traffic domains, at rank 104715.
What to Verify Next
For any commercial engagement, confirm the operator’s legal entity and any claimed publishing, sponsorship, or advertising relationship through an independent official channel. For routine editorial browsing and ordinary account use, no additional security restriction is indicated by the supplied evidence.
- The homepage describes an independent portal but does not identify a formal corporate or licensing framework.
- The supplied content shows no direct monetization mechanism, with advertising, sponsorship, or audience support only inferred as possible models.
- The contact and ownership details should be cross-checked independently before contractual or financial arrangements.
Summary Verdict
The website presents as a legitimate, established, low-risk sports information portal with coherent subject matter and no observed scam, phishing, or impersonation contradictions. Normal interaction, including account login and standard use, is appropriate.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is protected by Cloudflare CDN/WAF infrastructure, and all observed addresses were Cloudflare edge servers rather than exposed origin candidates. This reduces direct origin exposure and provides a meaningful mitigating control, although protective hosting alone does not establish legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Routine use is appropriate; only formal commercial or contractual engagement warrants independent confirmation of the operating entity and contact channels.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-02 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 sputnikfund.ru.
- The request stayed on sputnikfund.ru. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under ACTIVE-RU. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by com., across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-07-03. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2021-09-17. Clear
- It is hosted on CLOUDFLARENET, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | ACTIVE-RU |
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| Hosting | CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 2606:4700:3030::ac43:aee1 |
| Name servers | achiel.ns.cloudflare.com., aurora.ns.cloudflare.com. |
| SSL issuer | WE1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-19 |
| Domain age | 0.1 years |
| Domain expiry | 2027-07-03 |
| Archive first seen | 2021-09-17 |
| Archive snapshots | 327 |
| 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 sputnikfund.ru 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.