No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is nrk.no legit or a scam?
Official Norwegian public broadcaster site with 26-year domain history and no malicious flags.
Analysis Summary
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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 fully-rendered, professional news website for the Norwegian broadcaster NRK, exhibiting no visual indicators of a scam or clone.
What our vision model saw
6 signalsProfessional news layout with consistent NRK branding
Functional navigation menu for news, sports, and culture
Live sports schedule for FIFA World Cup matches
Standard search bar and user login interface
High-quality original photography and editorial content
No deceptive urgency, fake badges, or intrusive pop-ups
Intelligence
The domain nrk.no was registered in 1999 and belongs to Norsk rikskringkasting AS, a state-owned company with active registration in Norway. Our antivirus network returned zero detections across 92 engines and the hosting IP shows no abuse history. The page displays standard news content with live sports schedules and proper NRK branding. The company itself maintains a page warning the public about fake sites impersonating NRK. The only negative signal is a low Trustpilot score based on 64 reviews, which does not indicate fraud. These factors together confirm a legitimate, long-established media outlet.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for nrk.no, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain nrk.no registered 1999-11-14, age 26.7 years.
- Official website of Norsk rikskringkasting AS (NRK), Norwegian state-owned public broadcasting corporation.
- NRK maintains a dedicated page warning about fake websites, ads, SMS and emails impersonating NRK.
- Trustpilot page for www.nrk.no shows Bad TrustScore 1.5/5 based on 64 reviews.
- Company registered in Brønnøysundregistrene with org.nr. 976390512, active status, address in Oslo.
- NRK produces investigative content on scam networks and phishing operations.
- Wikipedia and multiple sources confirm NRK as Norway's largest media organization and public broadcaster.
Norsk rikskringkasting AS, org.nr. 976390512, founded 1996, state-owned public broadcaster headquartered in Oslo.
Our research located two scam-warning articles published directly by NRK on info.nrk.no. These pages alert the public to fake websites, ads, SMS, and emails that impersonate NRK. The company is registered in Norway as Norsk rikskringkasting AS with org.nr. 976390512 and remains active. A an independent review aggregator page for www.nrk.no contains 64 reviews and shows a score of 1.5/5, but no reports indicate the actual nrk.no domain distributes malware or harvests credentials.
Domain Timeline
- Nov 14, 1999Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 27 years old today.
- Jul 10, 2026Latest security review — Reviewed as safe
This scan re-ran every check and found no active threat signals.
nrk.no has operated for years with no threat signals in this review — a long, stable track record, though it is never a guarantee on its own.
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 · referencedContact 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 postal address visible on the page.
- Countdown timer or 'limited time' urgency pressure detected.
- Scam family match: Countdown / Urgency.
- Phone number listed (2026-06-10).
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://nrk.no/
- 2301https://nrk.no/
- 3200https://www.nrk.no/
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 nrk.no and not a lookalike like n-rk.no.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
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Final Verdict
NRK.no is the official website of Norway's state-owned public broadcaster. The domain is 26.7 years old with clean scans and a registered Norwegian company behind it. Users can safely browse the site.
Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, 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 nrk.no. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- nrk.no passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 94/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. nrk.no presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by DigiCert Inc · DigiCert Global G3 TLS ECC SHA384 2020 CA1, expiring in 97 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- nrk.no is 26.7 years old, registered on 11/14/1999 through Domeneshop AS. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report nrk.no as clean.
- No. nrk.no is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- nrk.no resolves to an IP operated by Akamai Technologies, Inc. in US (usage type: Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
- Yes. nrk.no sits in the global top-100k on Cloudflare Radar, which means it has substantial real-world traffic. That does not automatically make it safe, but established brands almost always rank here and throwaway scam domains almost never do.
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