Verdict
virginmedia.com 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 | Commercial marketing page for an established UK ISP offering broadband, TV and mobile bundles, with postcode-based availability checks, detailed pricing/terms and switching incentives. |
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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 | 1 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 27 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Never archivedNo public history of this site | Watch |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by GlobalSign GCC R3 DV TLS CA 2020 | 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).
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
- The operator behind the site could not be independently connected to a real-world brand or person.
Full analysis
Overview
This website is a commercial Virgin Media telecommunications service presenting broadband, television, mobile, entertainment, and bundle offers to consumers. Its apparent business model is direct online subscription sales, supported by postcode-based availability checks, plan selection, pricing information, switching incentives, and recurring service fees.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed across the reviewed pages and technical signals: there was no detected phishing behavior, brand impersonation, hidden password form, wallet interaction, or cloaking. The homepage presents a coherent telecommunications offering with detailed service categories and commercial terms. Dynamic inspection did record suspicious inline scripts and some non-whitelisted external requests, but these were not accompanied by hidden forms, credential collection, clipboard activity, or other abuse patterns. One external classifier produced an isolated malicious result; it was unconfirmed and not corroborated by the broader screening, which found no search-warning or confirmed blocklisting signal. The overall evidence therefore supports a low apparent scam or impersonation risk, while the real-world operator identity remains independently unverified.
- The homepage identifies a broadband, TV, and mobile marketing operation with substantive offer, pricing, switching, and service content.
- Homepage inspection found no hidden forms, password-exfiltration form, wallet-provider activity, clipboard manipulation, or cloaking.
- Behavioral inspection recorded suspicious inline scripts and limited non-whitelisted external activity, but no confirmed abuse-ready behavior.
- The site held a global traffic rank of 5711, was within the top one million sites, and had no confirmed external blocklisting result.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site appears to operate as a consumer telecommunications and subscription-commerce service rather than as a financial or other third-party regulated platform. Its pages provide service terms, pricing, bundle conditions, and checkout-related information, but the reviewed material does not present a regulator, license number, or registration number; this is a disclosure gap for ordinary merchant and consumer-protection verification, not evidence of a scam. The domain is long-established and registered through NOM-IQ Ltd dba Com Laude, with Virgin Enterprises Limited recorded as the organization. The privacy-redacted registrant field is an administrative limitation and does not independently establish the operator’s identity. Available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate website, but identity verification is not conclusive.
- Domain registration: 1999-02-27; age 27.47 years; expiry 2027-02-27.
- Registrar: NOM-IQ Ltd dba Com Laude; recorded organization: Virgin Enterprises Limited; registrant field: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY.
- The site’s transport encryption uses a DV certificate issued by GlobalSign GCC R3 DV TLS CA 2020, valid to 2026-11-28.
- The homepage and linked service areas provide broadband, television, mobile, pricing, contract, and switching information, but no license or registration number is presented in the reviewed content.
What to Verify Next
Before credential or payment interactions, the contracting entity shown in the final order documentation should be matched to an independently obtained corporate or consumer-service record. The applicable telecommunications authorization and consumer-protection position should be confirmed with the relevant jurisdictional registry where required. Return, cancellation, contract-buyout, and payment-protection terms should be reviewed independently, and official contact channels should be confirmed through an offline or independently sourced route rather than relying solely on page-provided contact paths.
- The checkout and plan-selection flow is paired with published pricing and service terms.
- The legal and contract areas include switching and contract-buyout information relevant to subscription commitments.
- The site provides an existing-customer area and account pathway, making confirmation of the contracting entity and support channels appropriate before sensitive use.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is high trust and low apparent risk, with strong convergence between the site’s mature commercial presentation, long operating history, established infrastructure, valid transport security, and generally clean external signals. The classification supports ordinary consideration of the service, but it should be described as apparently legitimate rather than as proof of the real-world operator’s identity.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves through Google Cloud Platform, Google LLC, in the United States, with no CDN vendor detected and the observed addresses assessed as likely origin addresses. This is a conventional, identifiable cloud-hosting arrangement and provides a mitigating infrastructure signal, but hosting infrastructure alone does not prove legitimacy.
- Hosting: AS396982, Google Cloud Platform, Google LLC, US.
- Infrastructure resolution identified 3 unique addresses, with 0 edge addresses and 3 likely origin addresses.
Closing Assessment
The service may be considered for normal commercial evaluation, provided independent merchant-identity, contractual, cancellation, and payment-protection checks are completed before credentials or payment details are submitted.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-11 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 | 25% |
- 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 virginmedia.com.
- The request stayed on virginmedia.com. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under NOM-IQ Ltd dba Com Laude. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by virginmedia.net, across 4 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-02-27. Noted
- It is hosted on GOOGLE-CLOUD-PLATFORM, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | NOM-IQ Ltd dba Com Laude |
|---|---|
| Hosting | GOOGLE-CLOUD-PLATFORM - Google LLC, US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 34.96.124.227 |
| Name servers | NS1.VIRGINMEDIA.NET, NS2.VIRGINMEDIA.NET, NS3.VIRGINMEDIA.NET, NS4.VIRGINMEDIA.NET |
| SSL issuer | GlobalSign GCC R3 DV TLS CA 2020 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-11-28 |
| Domain age | 27.47 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-02-27 |
| Archive first seen | Not available |
| Archive snapshots | 0 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 1 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about virginmedia.com 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.