Verdict
tvguide.co.uk 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 UK-focused TV guide offering current and upcoming television schedules across numerous channels, alongside entertainment news and program-discovery navigation. The page identifies Digitalbox Publishing Ltd as its publisher and presents no evident login, payment, credential collection, or high-risk financial activity. |
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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 | 29 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 19995000 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 1999.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
The website is an established UK television guide and entertainment portal that presents current and upcoming programme schedules, channel-based discovery, sports and film listings, and related entertainment news, with an apparent advertising-supported publishing model.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No identity contradictions, phishing indicators, brand impersonation, or other scam-related conflicts were observed. The domain’s long registration history, extensive archival record, established traffic footprint, and clean external reputation converge with the current media-focused content, supporting a legitimate and historically established operation rather than a recently created deceptive property.
- Domain-registration records show registration on 7 March 1997 (~29.43 years old), through GoDaddy.com, LLC, with expiry on 7 March 2027.
- The web archive contains 5,000 snapshots spanning 25 January 1999 to 14 March 2019 (21 years tracked), with no substantiated suspicious repurposing or semantic category conflict.
- Reputation checks recorded no malicious or suspicious detections, no known unsafe-browsing finding, no reported abuse, and no signature matches for the assessed domain.
- The homepage exhibited no login form, hidden form, credential-collection mechanism, cloaking, suspicious inline script, clipboard hijacking, or cryptocurrency-wallet interaction.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The homepage identifies Digitalbox Publishing Ltd as the publisher, providing a concrete organizational attribution consistent with the site’s editorial purpose. The service is an informational television-listings and entertainment publication rather than an observed financial, brokerage, payment, or investment platform; consequently, no sector-specific financial licence is indicated or evidently required by the presented business model. Transport security is current and appropriately configured for ordinary use.
- The homepage expressly attributes publication to Digitalbox Publishing Ltd.
- The homepage presents television schedules, programme discovery, films, sports coverage, and entertainment reporting, with no payment or subscription offer observed.
- The site’s transport encryption uses a WE1-issued domain-validated TLS certificate, valid until 14 October 2026.
- The homepage contains no sensitive form, payment workflow, financial promotion, cryptoasset feature, or claimed regulatory licence.
What to Verify Next
Routine institutional onboarding should confirm that the domain is entered correctly and record the publisher’s current privacy, cookie, and editorial-contact information from the live site. Organizations planning advertising, content syndication, or another contractual relationship should obtain counterparty and contracting details through an independently confirmed business channel; these are standard due-diligence measures rather than responses to an identified security concern.
- The homepage provides extensive programme and editorial navigation but no observed account-registration or transactional workflow.
- The assessed page exposes no untrusted form destination or external password-submission mechanism.
- Two successful behavioural runs produced stable responses without console errors or suspicious browser actions.
Summary Verdict
This is a legitimate, established, and trustworthy informational website. Its identity, historical provenance, current content, external reputation, and observed behaviour are mutually consistent, with no contradictory risk signals. Normal browsing and standard interaction are appropriate.
Infrastructure Integrity
The website is protected by Cloudflare’s mainstream CDN/WAF infrastructure, which limits direct exposure of the origin server and provides a conventional protective edge layer; this is a mitigating security control, not independent proof of legitimacy.
- The site is served from AS13335 (Cloudflare, Inc., US).
- All six observed addresses were Cloudflare edge addresses; no origin-server candidate was identified during the assessment.
Closing Assessment
Prospective users may interact with the website normally, including using any standard account functionality that the service may make available.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-03 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 tvguide.co.uk.
- The request stayed on tvguide.co.uk. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under GoDaddy.com, LLC. [Tag = GODADDY]. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by cloudflare.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-03-07. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 1999-01-25. Clear
- It is hosted on CLOUDFLARENET, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | GoDaddy.com, LLC. [Tag = GODADDY] |
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| Hosting | CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 2606:4700:20::ac43:4b44 |
| Name servers | june.ns.cloudflare.com, owen.ns.cloudflare.com |
| SSL issuer | WE1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-14 |
| Domain age | 29.4 years |
| Domain expiry | 2027-03-07 |
| Archive first seen | 1999-01-25 |
| 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 tvguide.co.uk 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.