No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is gazzetta.it legit or a scam?
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Official La Gazzetta dello Sport sports news site with clean security scans and long-established Italian media ownership.
Analysis Summary
Website Preview

Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
Visual analysis
We capture a fresh screenshot of the live page and ask a vision model to look for scam visual patterns — fake trust badges, countdown timers, overlay pop-ups, and visual clones of legitimate brands.
No scam visual patterns detected
The screenshot shows a standard, legitimate privacy consent and subscription modal for the Italian sports newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport.
What our vision model saw
4 signalsStandard GDPR-compliant cookie and privacy consent modal in Italian
Legitimate branding for 'La Gazzetta dello Sport' visible in text and background
Clear options for user preference management and subscription access
Professional layout consistent with major European news media outlets
Intelligence
The page is the legitimate digital platform for La Gazzetta dello Sport, a newspaper founded in 1896 and owned by RCS MediaGroup S.p.A., a publicly listed Italian publishing company. Our antivirus network returned zero detections across 92 engines and the hosting IP carries a zero abuse score. The domain ranks among the global top-100k sites and loads the expected professional news layout with proper branding and navigation. Web research confirms the site's identity through Wikipedia and the publisher's own corporate pages, with no scam reports located. The only notable signal is a low Trustpilot score tied to subscription service complaints rather than fraud. These factors together indicate a long-standing, legitimate media property rather than any malicious operation.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for gazzetta.it, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Official website of La Gazzetta dello Sport, an Italian sports newspaper founded in 1896.
- Owned and operated by RCS MediaGroup S.p.A., headquartered in Milan, Italy.
- Maintains a high trust rating (80/100) on automated security scanners like ProbeProof.
- Trustpilot score is low (1.3/5), but reviews primarily focus on customer service issues related to digital subscriptions and the online store rather than fraudulent activity.
- The domain is a primary source for Italian sports news with millions of daily unique users.
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"The most famous and most read Italian sports website, and a point of reference for all sports people and fans. Gazzetta.it offers authoritative all round sports coverage."
- Wikipediaopen
"Founded in 1896, it is the most widely read daily newspaper of any type in Italy (in 2018). ... The paper has a good record for campaigning journalism."
Owned by RCS MediaGroup S.p.A., a major multimedia publishing group listed on the Italian Stock Exchange (BIT: RCS).
Our research found no scam reports for gazzetta.it. Two positive mentions appear: one from the publisher's corporate site describing it as Italy's most-read sports daily, and a Wikipedia entry confirming its 1896 founding and editorial standing. The evidence package notes 168 complaints focused on subscription service issues rather than fraudulent activity. Business registration records show active ownership by RCS MediaGroup S.p.A., listed on the Italian Stock Exchange.
Threat Detection
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Technical Details
domain · encryption · redirects · server reputation · referencedThe plumbing behind the site — who registered it, how it’s encrypted, where it’s hosted, and where it links out. A valid certificate or a calm server doesn’t mean the business is honest — scam sites pass these checks too. Use this to corroborate the verdict, not to overturn it.
Contact Verification
We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.
- No contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No phone number listed on the page.
- Postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://gazzetta.it/
- 2200https://www.gazzetta.it/
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
What to do
Still, stay alert
No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.
- Double-check the exact URL in your address bar
Confirm you are actually on gazzetta.it and not a lookalike like g-azzetta.it.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
Password managers only auto-fill on the exact domain they were saved for — they refuse to fill lookalike domains, which is the single best phishing defence.
- OpenDiscuss this site on the forum
If you have first-hand experience with this site — good or bad — share it with the MalwareTips community.
Final Verdict
This is the official website of La Gazzetta dello Sport, Italy's leading sports newspaper. The domain shows clean scans across all engines, valid SSL, and established ownership by RCS MediaGroup. No payment details or personal information should be entered on any site without verifying the URL first.
Safety FAQ
Common questions, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on gazzetta.it, so it appears legitimate. All 92 antivirus engines we queried report it clean, it ranks among the world's most-visited sites, Even so, always double-check the exact address in your browser, because phishing emails routinely spoof real, trusted domains like this one.
- gazzetta.it passed our automated checks with a trust score of 95/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged it at the time of the last scan, and its signals line up with an established, legitimate site. Treat any unexpected login prompt or payment request on it with the same caution you would anywhere.
- Yes — and this is worth understanding. Even trustworthy domains get spoofed in phishing emails (a fake message that only looks like it's from gazzetta.it), and legitimate sites are occasionally compromised on specific pages. A clean verdict means the site itself checks out today; it does not mean every email or link claiming to be from gazzetta.it is genuine. Always reach the site by typing the address yourself rather than clicking links in unexpected messages.
- No — all 92 antivirus and blocklist engines in our malware network currently report gazzetta.it as clean. That's a good sign, though antivirus coverage is only one of the many signals we weigh, and brand-new scam sites can appear clean before vendors catch up.
- No — gazzetta.it is not currently on the major browser blocklist feeds that Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge rely on. Note that blocklists can lag behind brand-new scam domains, so "not listed" is reassuring but not a guarantee on its own.
- Yes — gazzetta.it presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · YR2, valid for another 52 days. Important caveat: SSL only encrypts the connection between you and the site — it does not verify who runs it. Almost all scam sites now have valid SSL too, so a padlock alone never means "safe".
- gazzetta.it resolves to an IP operated by Google LLC in NL (Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad — but hosting that doesn't match a brand's claimed country, or that sits on networks known for abuse, is one of the many signals we weigh alongside the verdict above.
- Yes — gazzetta.it ranks in the global top 100,000 most-visited sites, which means it has substantial real-world traffic. Genuine popularity doesn't automatically make a site safe, but throwaway scam domains almost never reach this level of traffic, so it's a meaningful point in the site's favour.
- This report is a record of the scan run on July 13, 2026, and the verdict reflects that point in time. Scam sites change fast — they can go live, get flagged, or vanish within days — so if you believe something about gazzetta.it has changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan that re-checks every signal from scratch and republishes an updated verdict.
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