Verdict
yorkshirepost.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 page for the Yorkshire Post presenting regional and national news, subscription prompts, newsletter signup and advertising. Content is editorial and informational. |
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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 | 28 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 19995000 snapshots | Clear |
| 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).
- Public web-archive history exists since 1999.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
The Yorkshire Post is an established regional news publisher presenting local, national and international editorial coverage alongside digital subscriptions, advertising, classified services, event-related offerings and newsletter registration. Its apparent purpose is to provide news and information while monetizing premium access and commercial placements.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No phishing, impersonation, blacklist or other contradictory signals were observed. The homepage presents a coherent editorial news service, links to established social platforms, and contains no detected malicious content, hidden sensitive forms, wallet-drainer behavior, clipboard manipulation or cloaking. Automated testing did identify two suspicious inline scripts and some non-whitelisted external posts, but these are implementation or advertising-related behavioral signals rather than evidence of a contradictory identity or scam mechanism; the overall technical and content evidence remains consistent with an established site.
- The homepage identifies the Yorkshire Post as a news publisher and displays the claim “News you can trust since 1754,” with sections covering news, politics, business, sport and lifestyle.
- Historical records show the domain registered in 1998 (~27.94 years old).
- Web-archive records show 5,000 snapshots spanning 1999–2021, covering 23 years with a maximum recorded gap of 1 year.
- The homepage behavior assessment recorded 2 suspicious inline scripts, 2 non-whitelisted external posts and no hidden forms, wallet activity, clipboard writes or cloaking.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate news publisher rather than a regulated financial or investment service. No licensing claim or registration number was identified in the analyzed site content; for this business model, that is a transparency and verification point rather than evidence of wrongdoing. The site’s editorial, subscription and advertising presentation is internally coherent, and external reputation checks found no malicious or suspicious detections, while no separate broker match was identified. The real-world operator identity remains likely rather than independently verified, so on-site branding should not be treated as conclusive proof of the legal entity behind the service.
- The homepage and contact navigation identify a regional news and media service, with subscription and newsletter forms rather than an investment or financial-product interface.
- Hosting resolves through AS396982, Google Cloud Platform — Google LLC, US.
- The site’s TLS certificate is issued by YE2 at DV validation level and is valid to 2026-09-08.
- External reputation assessment recorded 0 malicious detections, 0 suspicious detections and no malicious safe-browsing result.
What to Verify Next
Before credential or payment interactions, an organization should independently confirm the merchant or publisher identity through a trusted offline or independently sourced contact route. Subscription purchases should be checked against the applicable terms, cancellation and refund provisions, and payment-protection arrangements. Any formal corporate or consumer-protection disclosure required by the relevant jurisdiction should be confirmed through the appropriate public registry.
- The homepage contains a Sign In path and subscription signup, making account and payment terms relevant to ordinary due diligence.
- The site provides internal navigation to a contact page, subscribe page and advertising services.
- The analyzed content includes an external reference to IPSO, providing a potential independent context point for editorial-standards verification.
Summary Verdict
The site has a high-trust, low-risk posture and the evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate website. No scam, impersonation or phishing contradiction was observed, although the operator’s real-world identity is not independently verified.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is hosted on Google Cloud Platform infrastructure in the United States under AS396982. No CDN was detected, and resolution identified one direct hosting address rather than a distributed edge layer; this is a neutral infrastructure characteristic, while the identified Google Cloud hosting provides a conventional enterprise hosting environment.
Closing Assessment
Ordinary browsing is proportionate to the assessed posture; before submitting credentials or making a payment, independent confirmation of the publisher identity, applicable subscription terms and payment protections should be completed.
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 | LIKELY |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 79/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 78% |
- Trusted social count=3
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 yorkshirepost.co.uk.
- The request stayed on yorkshirepost.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 2027-09-10. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 1999-10-23. Clear
- 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-e1.googledomains.com., ns-cloud-e2.googledomains.com., ns-cloud-e3.googledomains.com., ns-cloud-e4.googledomains.com. |
| SSL issuer | YE2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-09-08 |
| Domain age | 27.94 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-09-10 |
| Archive first seen | 1999-10-23 |
| 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 yorkshirepost.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.