Verdict
tvtoday.de 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 | German TV Today homepage presenting current television listings, editorial program highlights, broadcast filtering, and entertainment news, with publisher, legal, privacy, contact, subscription, and advertising information. |
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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 | Not availableNo registration record was returned | Noted |
| Web archive | Archived since 19962750 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA DV R36 | Noted |
The page as captured
No screenshot is retained for this report.
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Public web-archive history exists since 1996.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
- The operator behind the site could not be independently connected to a real-world brand or person.
Full analysis
Overview
The website is an established German television-guide and entertainment portal that presents current broadcast schedules, editorial recommendations, programme filters, film and series information, sports coverage, streaming content, and entertainment news, supported by advertising, media partnerships, and publication subscriptions.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No identity contradictions, phishing indicators, brand impersonation, deceptive forms, or other fraud signals were observed. The homepage consistently presents a conventional media-service model, while the domain’s long history and substantial archival record support continuity rather than suspicious repurposing. External reputation checks were clean, and the site maintains an established global traffic footprint.
- The homepage provides substantive television listings and editorial highlights covering films, series, sports broadcasts, children’s programming, and entertainment news.
- The domain dates to approximately 1996 and is ~29.79 years old; its archive contains 2,750 snapshots spanning 1996-10-18 to 2026-08-01, covering 31 tracked years.
- The homepage contained no login form, hidden form, sensitive-input form, suspicious inline script, cloaking, wallet interaction, or clipboard-hijacking behaviour.
- External reputation telemetry recorded 0 malicious and 0 suspicious detections, no malicious safe-browsing finding, no abuse reports, and a global traffic rank of 52,236.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The service is an editorial television and entertainment publication rather than a regulated financial or investment product, so financial licensing is neither claimed nor ordinarily relevant to its stated activities. Publisher attribution and links for legal, privacy, contact, subscription, and advertising information provide the expected disclosure framework for this type of media portal. No conflicting legal-entity names or adverse broker-reputation association were identified.
- The homepage exposes publisher, legal-notice, privacy, contact, subscription, and advertising information alongside its editorial content.
- The homepage describes a television-schedule and entertainment-information service and makes no financial, brokerage, cryptocurrency, or investment offering.
- The site is served from AS39218 by HBM-OG-AS – Burda Digital Systems GmbH in Germany.
- The site’s transport encryption uses a valid DV certificate issued by Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA DV R36, valid to 2026-08-07.
What to Verify Next
For institutional onboarding or commercial engagement, the prospective counterparty should confirm the contracting publisher’s details against the current legal notice, review subscription and cancellation terms before purchasing, and validate advertising or media-partnership representatives through independently obtained corporate channels. Routine visitors do not require enhanced precautions beyond standard account and payment hygiene.
- The homepage presents subscriptions as one component of the publication’s commercial model.
- Advertising and media partnerships are consistent with the stated business model of an established editorial portal.
- Interactive testing completed two successful runs without untrusted external form submissions or concealed credential collection.
- All observed external XHR requests and external POST destinations were classified as benign.
Summary Verdict
The website is a legitimate, established, and trustworthy media portal with coherent identity, sustained operational history, clean reputation evidence, and no observed contradictions. Normal interaction, including account login and standard use, is appropriate.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site uses Akamai CDN/WAF protection, with three observed edge addresses and one potential origin candidate. This architecture reduces direct infrastructure exposure and supports availability and traffic filtering, although protective infrastructure is a mitigating security control rather than independent proof of legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Prospective users may engage with the service normally, applying ordinary care to subscriptions, payments, and account security.
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 tvtoday.de.
- The request stayed on tvtoday.de. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by markmonitor.com, across 7 name servers. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 1996-10-18. Clear
- It is hosted on HBM-OG-AS, from a server in DE. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Not available |
|---|---|
| Hosting | HBM-OG-AS - Burda Digital Systems GmbH, DE |
| Country | DE |
| Server IP | 193.26.108.196 |
| Name servers | ns1.markmonitor.com, ns2.markmonitor.com, ns3.markmonitor.com, ns4.markmonitor.com, ns5.markmonitor.com, ns6.markmonitor.com, ns7.markmonitor.com |
| SSL issuer | Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA DV R36 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-08-07 |
| Domain age | Not available (no registration date was returned) |
| Domain expiry | Not available |
| Archive first seen | 1996-10-18 |
| Archive snapshots | 2750 |
| 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 tvtoday.de 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.