Verdict
yorkshireeveningpost.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 | Homepage/section listing of the Yorkshire Evening Post: regional news, sports, crime, events and subscription prompts; contains newsletter signup and subscription paywall messaging. |
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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 | 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 | 27 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Never archivedNo public history of this site | Watch |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YE2 | 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).
- 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 Yorkshire Evening Post website is an established regional news and local-media service presenting Leeds and wider Yorkshire coverage across news, sport, crime, events, lifestyle and public notices. Its apparent business model combines editorial content with digital subscriptions, advertising, sponsored content, classified services and newsletter registration.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed, including no phishing, impersonation, malicious-reputation or conflicting-identity finding. The homepage’s content is internally consistent with a regional newspaper: it presents local reporting, sports coverage, public-interest notices, newsletters and ordinary subscription prompts rather than investment, cryptocurrency or high-pressure financial propositions. Behavioral testing did observe suspicious inline scripts and some non-whitelisted external posts, but these were sandbox observations and were not accompanied by hidden forms, external password submission, wallet activity, cloaking or brand-impersonation indicators; the overall page behavior remained consistent with advertising, subscription and newsletter functionality.
- Homepage: displays “Yorkshire Evening Post,” local news, sport, crime, events, newsletters, e-paper and subscription functions.
- Behavioral testing: recorded 2 suspicious inline scripts and 2 non-whitelisted external posts, while recording 0 hidden forms, 0 external password forms, 0 wallet-connect runs and no cloaking.
- External reputation checks: recorded 0 malicious findings, 0 suspicious findings and no phishing or impersonation result.
- Domain registration: created 1999-05-21; 27.24 years old.
Regulatory Verification Notes
Available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate news publisher, although the real-world operator identity is not independently verified. The site does not present a recorded financial-services license or registration number; given the observed regional-news business model, this is a disclosure and verification matter rather than evidence of a scam. The domain has a long registration history, uses the named registrar Team Blue Internet Services UK Limited t/a Team Blue Internet Services Limited t/a names.co.uk, has a strong established traffic footprint, and received no adverse broker-context match. Transport security is valid, but the certificate is domain-validated rather than an identity-validated organizational certificate.
- Hosting: served from AS396982, Google Cloud Platform — Google LLC, US.
- TLS: certificate issued by YE2, validation level DV, valid to 2026-09-08.
- Domain registration: registrar recorded as Team Blue Internet Services UK Limited t/a Team Blue Internet Services Limited t/a names.co.uk; expiration recorded as 2027-05-21.
- Publisher disclosure: the available homepage content identifies the Yorkshire Evening Post brand and publishing activities but records no licensing claim or license number.
What to Verify Next
Before credential or payment interactions, an independent check should connect the publisher’s stated trading identity to an authoritative corporate or business registry. Subscription terms should be reviewed for pricing, renewal, cancellation and refund provisions, and payment should use a method offering appropriate consumer protection. Official contact and support channels should also be confirmed through an independent route before resolving account or billing issues.
- Homepage forms analysis: 2 forms were observed, categorized as subscription, newsletter and login-prompt functions.
- Homepage forms analysis: no sensitive form and no untrusted destination were detected.
- Page behavior: 2 of 2 evaluation runs completed successfully, with no clipboard-write activity or fingerprinting runs recorded.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is high trust and low risk, with the available evidence consistent with an established, apparently legitimate website. The classification supports normal browsing and ordinary site functionality, while the operator’s real-world identity remains independently unverified.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is hosted on Google Cloud Platform and resolves to a single origin address, with no CDN or WAF layer identified in the supplied infrastructure evidence. Google Cloud provides conventional, reputable hosting infrastructure and is a mitigating operational signal, but hosting infrastructure alone does not establish the operator’s identity or legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Normal editorial use is proportionate to the assessed posture; independent merchant-identity, subscription-policy and payment-protection checks should be completed before submitting credentials or making payments.
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 | 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 yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk.
- The request stayed on yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Team Blue Internet Services UK Limited t/a Team Blue Internet Services Limited t/a names.co.uk. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by com., across 4 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-05-21. Noted
- It is hosted on GOOGLE-CLOUD-PLATFORM, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Team Blue Internet Services UK Limited t/a Team Blue Internet Services Limited t/a names.co.uk |
|---|---|
| Hosting | GOOGLE-CLOUD-PLATFORM - Google LLC, US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 34.105.168.53 |
| Name servers | ns-cloud-b1.googledomains.com., ns-cloud-b2.googledomains.com., ns-cloud-b3.googledomains.com., ns-cloud-b4.googledomains.com. |
| SSL issuer | YE2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-09-08 |
| Domain age | 27.24 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-05-21 |
| Archive first seen | Not available |
| Archive snapshots | 0 |
| 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 yorkshireeveningpost.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.