Is si.com legit or a scam?
The official Sports Illustrated media site is a long-standing legitimate business, though it faces frequent consumer complaints regarding its subscription and billing practices.
Analysis Summary
No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
MT Intelligence
The domain has been registered since 1990 and is the verified home of a globally recognized sports publication. Our analysis shows no signs of malware, phishing, or fraudulent infrastructure. The site is currently operated by Minute Media under a formal licensing agreement with the trademark owner. However, the trust score is slightly lowered due to a high volume of negative consumer feedback regarding difficult-to-cancel subscriptions and unexpected charges. The 'push-notification' flag is a common feature of modern news sites and does not indicate a security threat here.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for si.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- si.com is the official website of Sports Illustrated, a major U.S. sports media brand first published in 1954.
- Domain registered July 6, 1990 (over 35 years old); currently operated by Minute Media under a 10-year licensing deal with Authentic Brands Group (ABG-SI LLC owns the trademark).
- Site provides sports news, analysis, scores, and features for NFL, NBA, MLB, etc.; actively maintained with recent articles.
- Page actively promotes push notifications with an opt-in prompt; official help page explains how to sign up and manage them.
- Past controversies include 2023 reports of AI-generated articles and fake author profiles (under prior licensee), plus 2024 licensing change and staff layoffs/rehiring.
- Consumer complaints center on misleading subscriptions, high renewal charges, delivery issues, and difficulty canceling (low ratings on Trustpilot ~2.6 and PissedConsumer ~2.4).
- No evidence of malware distribution, phishing, or direct fraud; detected "Push-Notification Spam" likely refers to aggressive browser notification requests common on news sites.
- PissedConsumeropen
"Magazine is a scam. Subscription very misleading. Hope it goes out of business. Terrible advertising very misleading!!!"
- PissedConsumeropen
"Loved the magazine, but almost $300 in 2024, higher than expected. I couldn't cancel the subscription, so I blocked charges with my credit card."
- Trustpilotopen
"Sports Illustrated ... 2.6. Poor. TrustScore 2.5"
Operated by Minute Media (Sports Publishing Solutions Inc. and affiliates) under license from ABG-SI LLC / Authentic Brands Group. Domain registered 1990, expires 2027.
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
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.
- No contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
- Page requests browser push-notification permission — common malvertising vector.
- Scam family match: Push-Notification Spam.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://si.com/
- 2200https://www.si.com/cross-domain
Server Reputation
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 si.com and not a lookalike like s-i.com.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.
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Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
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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 si.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- si.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 81/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. si.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · E7, expiring in 43 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- si.com is 36.0 years old, registered on 7/6/1990 through MarkMonitor Inc.. 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 si.com as clean.
- No. si.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- si.com resolves to an IP operated by Amazon.com, 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. si.com 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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