Verdict
thetv.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 | Homepage of WEBザテレビジョン, a KADOKAWA-operated Japanese entertainment publication offering current news, television listings, celebrity information, rankings, reviews, special features, comics, and publication promotions. |
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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 | 20 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 20035000 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by FujiSSL RSA Domain Validation Secure Server CA 2 | 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 2003.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
WEBザテレビジョン is an established Japanese entertainment-media portal operated under the KADOKAWA brand, presenting current entertainment news, television schedules, celebrity profiles and rankings, reviews, special features, comics, and publication promotions. Its apparent business model combines editorial publishing with advertising, sponsored or affiliate promotions, and support for KADOKAWA publications.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No identity, phishing, impersonation, or malicious-reputation contradictions were observed. The site’s long operating history, extensive archival footprint, established global traffic presence, and clean threat-intelligence results converge with a content-rich homepage and benign browser behavior. The observed page contained neither a login form nor a sensitive-data form, and testing found no cloaking, hidden forms, credential forwarding, wallet-draining behavior, or clipboard manipulation.
- Domain-registration records show registration on 2006-06-28, approximately 20.12 years old, with expiration on 2027-06-30.
- The web archive contains 5,000 snapshots spanning 2003-10-08 to 2021-05-07, covering 19 tracked years; no suspicious repurposing or semantic drift was established.
- External reputation checks recorded 0 malicious and 0 suspicious detections, no malicious safe-browsing classification, no external blacklist finding, and 0 abuse reports.
- The homepage presented coherent, recently dated entertainment coverage and showed no sensitive, hidden, or externally directed password forms.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site identifies itself through the KADOKAWA corporate brand and operates as a general entertainment publisher rather than as a financial, brokerage, payment, or investment service. Its available company information, policies, and contact options support an established editorial identity. No regulated financial activity or licensing claim was observed, so the absence of financial-license information is appropriate to the stated business model rather than a legitimacy concern. The transport and hosting telemetry further supports routine operational integrity.
- The homepage expressly displays “KADOKAWA Group” alongside its editorial navigation and publication-oriented content.
- The assessed site materials include company information, policy disclosures, and contact options, with no conflicting legal-entity name identified.
- The hosting infrastructure is served from AS16509, operated by AMAZON-02 — Amazon.com, Inc., US.
- The site uses a DV TLS certificate issued by FujiSSL RSA Domain Validation Secure Server CA 2, valid until 2026-12-12.
What to Verify Next
Routine enterprise onboarding should confirm that the intended destination is the assessed domain, review the applicable site policies for the planned use, and distinguish editorial material from advertising, sponsored features, or affiliate promotions where that distinction affects internal compliance requirements.
- The homepage title identifies the service as WEBザテレビジョン and describes entertainment news, television-program information, and celebrity profiles.
- Homepage navigation separates news, programs, talent information, rankings, reviews, special features, and comics, providing a coherent basis for content classification.
- The assessed homepage returned normal content and exhibited no redirect mismatch, cloaking, or deceptive browser behavior.
Summary Verdict
The website is legitimate, established, and trustworthy. Its coherent corporate identity, mature publishing presence, clean external reputation, substantial historical continuity, and stable technical operation support normal interaction, including account login and standard use where those functions are offered.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is delivered through Amazon-operated content-delivery infrastructure with valid encrypted transport. This reduces direct infrastructure exposure and supports availability and connection integrity, although protective hosting is appropriately treated as a mitigating control rather than independent proof of legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Prospective users and enterprise personnel may engage with the site normally, subject to standard organizational controls for media consumption, account management, and promotional content.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-04 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 thetv.jp.
- The request stayed on thetv.jp. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by awsdns-57.net, across 4 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-06-30. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2003-10-08. Clear
- It is hosted on AMAZON-02, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Not available |
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| Hosting | AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 3.164.206.104 |
| Name servers | ns-972.awsdns-57.net, ns-24.awsdns-03.com, ns-1682.awsdns-18.co.uk, ns-1383.awsdns-44.org |
| SSL issuer | FujiSSL RSA Domain Validation Secure Server CA 2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-12-12 |
| Domain age | 20.1 years |
| Domain expiry | 2027-06-30 |
| Archive first seen | 2003-10-08 |
| 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 thetv.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.