Is placenorthwest.co.uk a scam?

Our automated security review found no threat indicators on placenorthwest.co.uk. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.

Is placenorthwest.co.uk safe to use?

placenorthwest.co.uk passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 90/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.

Does placenorthwest.co.uk have a valid SSL certificate?

Yes. placenorthwest.co.uk presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 71 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.

How old is the placenorthwest.co.uk domain?

placenorthwest.co.uk is 19.6 years old, registered on 10/8/2006 through UK-2 Limited t/a UK2. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.

Has placenorthwest.co.uk been flagged by antivirus engines?

No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report placenorthwest.co.uk as clean.

Is placenorthwest.co.uk on any phishing or malware blacklists?

No. placenorthwest.co.uk is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.

Where is placenorthwest.co.uk hosted?

placenorthwest.co.uk resolves to an IP operated by WPEngine, Inc. in US (usage type: Content Delivery Network). 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.

How often is the placenorthwest.co.uk report updated?

We cache results for 24 hours. Signed-in MalwareTips members can trigger a manual rescan at any time using the "Rescan" button on the report page, which re-runs every check from scratch and refreshes this page.

SAFE

No threats detected

All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.

Security Review

Is placenorthwest.co.uk legit or a scam?

Name: Is placenorthwest.co.uk legit or a scam?
Item: placenorthwest.co.uk
Rating: 5
Author: MalwareTips

Our verdict:Safe· 90/100

SafeSuspiciousDangerous

Legitimate UK property news site established in 2007 with clean scans, verified company registration, and no scam indicators.

Why we trust it

Domain age exceeds 19 years and aligns with stated business history.Active UK company registration (Place Media Group Ltd, number 09392799) verified.Zero detections from our antivirus network and browser blocklists.

placenorthwest.co.ukScanned 9d ago

Post Facebook

Trust score

SAFE

Heuristics 86·MT 92

Category tags

newsreal estate95% MT confidence

Warning signals (1)

Redirects to another domain

Positive signals (5)

Antivirus clear Not on major blacklists Domain is 20 years old Encrypted connection Clean server reputation

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Analysis Summary

Threat Intelligence

0/92

All engines report clean

Domain Age

20 years old

Registered Oct 8, 2006

MT Intelligence

Safe

Low likelihood · 95% confidence

MT Intelligence

Advanced threat intelligence

MT Security Analyst

Low scam likelihoodengineMT · Guardiantrust92/100

MT AgentLive web researchVisual inspection

Confidence

The site presents itself as Place North West, a B2B news platform covering property and regeneration in North West England. Its domain is nearly 20 years old and matches the 2007 establishment date listed in public records. The hosting IP shows zero meaningful abuse history and all security scans returned clean. Evidence confirms an active UK limited company (Place Media Group Ltd) with a registered office in Bolton. No scam reports, complaints, or clone indicators appear in our research, and the page content consists of normal news articles and event listings.

Full dossier

Analysis complete

Page Content

The homepage displays standard news articles, event listings, and regional sections for property professionals. It includes reader comments and links to related sites within the same media group.

Infrastructure

Valid SSL certificate from Google Trust Services. Hosting IP carries a clean reputation with only four minor abuse reports. The page loads external analytics scripts but no malicious redirects or forms.

Domain History

Registered for 7170 days (approximately 19.6 years) through a UK registrar. Matches the 2007 launch of the Place North media group.

Web Reputation

No scam or fraud mentions found. Active UK company registration confirmed for Place Media Group Ltd. Traffic data shows meaningful UK readership in the real-estate category.

Risk Factors

No contact email or phone number appears on the homepage itself.

Positive Signals

Domain age exceeds 19 years and aligns with stated business history.
Active UK company registration (Place Media Group Ltd, number 09392799) verified.
Zero detections from our antivirus network and browser blocklists.
Hosting IP shows minimal abuse reports and low risk score.
Page content consists of normal news articles and events with no scam patterns.

AI Recommendation

The site is safe to visit. It is a long-established UK business news platform with no red flags.

Next-gen fraud intelligence

Evidence-backedCross-checked

Website Preview

LIVE RENDER

placenorthwest.co.uk

Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.

Web Research Findings

Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for placenorthwest.co.uk, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.

Domain age

19 yrs

Registered Oct 2006

Business registration

Active · UK

Site traces back to an actively registered business.

Clone check

Not a clone

No well-known site's layout or branding detected here.

Typosquat check

No look-alike match

The domain doesn't resemble any well-known brand's spelling.

Web mentions

No scam reports found

No complaints, no negative coverage turned up in our sweep.

Key findings

7 headline facts from open-web research

Domain placenorthwest.co.uk is the official site of Place North West, a B2B news and events platform for property and regeneration professionals in North West England, established 2007 as part of Place North media group.
LinkedIn company page confirms: 'Established in 2007, Place North West is a business-to-business website for property and regeneration professionals in the North West. Our readership is over ...' (uk.linkedin.com/company/place-north-west).
Active UK company registration: Place Media Group Ltd (09392799), status active (find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/09392799).
Domain reputation check classifies placenorthwest.co.uk with low risk profile (ipqualityscore.com/domain-reputation/placenorthwest.co.uk).
No search results for scam, fraud, complaint, or ripoff associated with the domain; site itself publishes articles on property-related scams and fraud cases.
Domain age given as 7170 days (~19.6 years); consistent with 2007 establishment and ongoing activity (news, events, podcasts, social media presence on LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube).
Traffic stats: ranked #11130 in GB with 167.39K traffic, category Real Estate (semrush.com/website/placenorthwest.co.uk/overview/).

Business registration

Status: active · UK

Place Media Group Ltd (company number 09392799), registered office Fourth Floor, Unit 5b The Parklands, Bolton, BL6 4SD; active private limited company

Research summary

Narrative write-up from our AI analyst, grounded on the facts above

Our research found no scam reports or complaints about placenorthwest.co.uk. The domain is linked to an active UK-registered company, Place Media Group Ltd (09392799), and has operated since 2007 as a B2B property news platform with LinkedIn presence and measurable UK traffic.

Antivirus Engines

Clean pass · verified

Clean across 92 engines

We cross-check every URL against our antivirus network of 92 malware and blacklist engines. None of them flagged this URL in the last scan.

0Malicious0Suspicious60Harmless92Engines

Clean

Kaspersky

Clean

Bitdefender

Clean

Microsoft

Not in pass

ESET-NOD32

Not in pass

Avira

Not in pass

Sophos

Clean

Fortinet

Clean

Google Safebrowsing

Clean

Emsisoft

Clean

No engine detections. The URL passed every antivirus and blacklist engine we queried in this scan. Stay vigilant — AV coverage is only one signal among many.

Security Scans

Blacklist Check

Not flagged on major threat lists

Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.

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.

What We Found

No clear contact details on the page

Emails on site's domainNone

Phone numbersNone

Postal addressPresent

Linked social profiles3

Signal Summary

Contact details look reasonable

No contact email found anywhere on the page.
No phone number listed on the page.

Postal address visible on the page.
Links to 3 social profiles.

Domain & Encryption

Domain History

Age20 years old

RegistrarUK-2 Limited t/a UK2

RegisteredOct 8, 2006

ExpiresOct 8, 2026

Owner privacyHidden

Encryption Certificate

StatusValid

ProtocolTLSv1.3

IssuerGoogle Trust Services · WE1

ExpiresAug 7, 2026 (71d)

Self-signedNo

Hosting & Technology

HostingWPEngine, Inc.

Server locationUS

Web servercloudflare

Platform / CMSWordPress

Redirect Chain

Hops

Cross-domain

Yes

Lookalike

Punycode

1301http://placenorthwest.co.uk/
2301http://www.placenorthwest.co.uk/cross-domain
3200https://www.placenorthwest.co.uk/cross-domain

Server Reputation

Abuse Intelligence

Confidence score0%

Reports on file4

ISPWPEngine, Inc.

Usage typeContent Delivery Network

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 placenorthwest.co.uk and not a lookalike like p-lacenorthwest.co.uk.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.
Discuss this site on the forum
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Reputation Sources

How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.

Google Safe Browsing

Not listedCheck ↗

VirusTotal

Not listedCheck ↗

AbuseIPDB

Not listedCheck ↗

Also verify:Spamhaus ↗DNSBL / SURBL ↗PhishTank ↗

Referenced Domains

Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.

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Safety FAQ

Common questions about this site, answered from the scan data on this page. These are auto-generated — not hand-written — so they always match the underlying report.

Our automated security review found no threat indicators on placenorthwest.co.uk. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.

Final Verdict

Trust / 100

Final Verdict·placenorthwest.co.uk

SAFE

Place North West is a legitimate B2B news and events platform for UK property professionals. Our analysis finds a clean security record, a 19-year-old domain, and an active UK company registration with zero scam reports. You can safely browse the site.

The site is safe to visit. It is a long-established UK business news platform with no red flags.

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