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

Is sports.ru safe to use?

sports.ru passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 95/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.

Does sports.ru have a valid SSL certificate?

Yes. sports.ru presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · R13, expiring in 34 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.

Has sports.ru been flagged by antivirus engines?

No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report sports.ru as clean.

Is sports.ru on any phishing or malware blacklists?

No. sports.ru is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.

Where is sports.ru hosted?

sports.ru resolves to an IP operated by DDOS-GUARD LTD in RU (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.

Is sports.ru a well-known website?

Yes. sports.ru 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.

How often is the sports.ru report updated?

This is a permanent record of the scan run on July 10, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around sports.ru have changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan, which re-runs every check from scratch and publishes an updated report.

SAFE

No threats detected

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

Security Review

Is sports.ru legit or a scam?

Our verdict:Safe· 95/100

SafeSuspiciousDangerous

Established Russian sports news site founded in 1998 with active company registration and clean security scans.

Why we trust it

Domain has operated continuously since December 1998.Russian company ООО Спортс.Ру registered in 2010 remains active with verifiable registration details.Zero detections across 92 antivirus engines and clean IP reputation.

sports.ruScanned 1h ago

Post Facebook

Trust score

SAFE

Score breakdown

Heuristics 100·MT 92

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Positive signals (4)

Antivirus clearNot on major blacklistsEncrypted connectionClean server reputation

View density

Analysis Summary

Threat Intelligence

0/92

All engines report clean

Domain Age

—

Registration date unknown

Intelligence

Safe

Low likelihood · 95% confidence

Website Preview

LIVE RENDER

sports.ru

1Professional sports news layout with complex navigation and high-quality imagery

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

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.

/ 100

Low visual risk

Visual red flags detected in the screenshot

The website appears to be a legitimate, fully-rendered sports news portal with professional design and functional content.

Visual risk5/100

What our vision model saw

5 signals

Professional sports news layout with complex navigation and high-quality imagery

Functional scoreboard showing live and completed match results

Standard user interface elements including search, notifications, and profile login

Contextually relevant advertising banner for a mobile application

Consistent branding and typography throughout the page

Intelligence

Advanced threat intelligence

Analysis

Low scam likelihoodengineMT · Guardiantrust92/100

MT AgentLive web researchVisual inspection

Confidence

The site presents itself as a professional sports news platform covering football, hockey, tennis and other sports with live scores and user blogs. Our antivirus network returned zero detections across 92 engines and the hosting IP shows no abuse history. The company ООО Спортс.Ру has been registered since 2010 with active status in Russian business registries. Evidence from multiple sources confirms the domain has operated since December 1998 and was acquired by an investment fund in 2021. No scam reports, complaints, or clone indicators appear in the research. The combination of long domain history, verified business registration, and clean technical signals supports a safe classification.

Full dossier

Analysis complete

Page Content

The page displays a full sports news portal with navigation for football, hockey, basketball, tennis, boxing and other disciplines. It includes live match scoreboards, article previews, user blog sections, and standard site features such as search and notifications. The layout uses professional typography and high-quality imagery consistent with an established media outlet.

Infrastructure

The site loads from IP 95.129.232.128 with a clean abuse score of 0/100 and no reported incidents. SSL certificate is valid from Let's Encrypt and expires in 34 days. Two redirects occurred during loading but stayed within the same domain family. External resources load from known analytics providers including Google Tag Manager and Yandex.

Domain History

The domain sports.ru has operated since December 1, 1998 according to multiple sources. The operating company ООО Спортс.Ру was registered November 17, 2010 in Moscow under ИНН 7705933383 and ОГРН 1107746938232. The company remains active with a listed Moscow address. The domain is registered through RU-CENTER-RU to the same legal entity.

Web Reputation

Zero scam reports or fraud complaints were located across web searches. The site appears in neutral discussions on Reddit about sports content rather than security issues. Business registry lookups confirm active status. No negative listings appear on independent review aggregators for this domain.

What this means for you

The site shows consistent signals of a legitimate, long-operating Russian sports media company. Visitors can browse news and statistics without elevated risk of malware or phishing based on the current scan data.

Positive Signals

Domain has operated continuously since December 1998.
Russian company ООО Спортс.Ру registered in 2010 remains active with verifiable registration details.
Zero detections across 92 antivirus engines and clean IP reputation.
Professional news layout with functional live scores and consistent branding.
No scam reports or complaints found in web research.

AI Recommendation

The site appears safe for reading sports news. No special precautions are required beyond normal browsing habits.

Next-gen fraud intelligence

Evidence-backedCross-checked

Web Research Findings

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

Business registration

Active · Russia

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 sports.ru is the official site of a major Russian sports news and blogging platform founded December 1, 1998 by Stanislav Gridasov (Wikipedia, multiple profiles).
Company ООО "Спортс.Ру" (LLC) registered November 17, 2010 in Moscow, ИНН 7705933383, ОГРН 1107746938232; listed as active with address in Moscow (rusprofile.ru, focus.kontur.ru, checko.ru).
Acquired in February/March 2021 by investment fund controlled by Alexey Nechaev (founder of Faberlic); previous owners included German Tkachenko et al. (RBC, Interfax, Forbes.ru, EWDN).
No scam reports, fraud complaints, or negative Trustpilot/ScamAdviser/ScamDoc listings found for sports.ru itself; searches for "scam", "мошенничество", "жалоба" return unrelated betting/streaming scams or internal site moderation discussio
Site hosts news, analytics, interviews, stats, photos/videos, and user blogs on Russian and international sports (football, hockey, etc.); page content matches description.
WHOIS references (2ip.ru, nic.ru) confirm .ru domain registered to SPORTS.RU LLC, taxpayer ID 7705933383, registrar RU-CENTER-RU; domain age aligns with 1998 founding.
Reddit mentions are neutral/fan discussions about content (figure skating, soccer); no scam or impersonation reports.

Business registration

Status: active · Russia

ООО "Спортс.Ру" (SPORTS.RU LLC), ИНН 7705933383, ОГРН 1107746938232, registered 17.11.2010 in Moscow; active per multiple Russian business registries (rusprofile.ru, focus.kontur.ru, etc.).

Research summary

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

Web research located the official company record for ООО Спортс.Ру (ИНН 7705933383, ОГРН 1107746938232) registered November 2010 in Moscow and listed as active. The domain has operated since December 1998 and was acquired in 2021 by an investment fund linked to Alexey Nechaev. No scam reports, fraud complaints, or negative listings were found for sports.ru. Mentions on Reddit relate to sports content rather than security concerns.

Threat Detection

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.

0Malicious0Suspicious61Harmless92Engines

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.

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 ↗

Technical Details

domain · encryption · redirects · server reputation · referenced

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 numbers4.39543 22

Postal addressNot listed

Linked social profiles0

Signal Summary

Several contact red flags

No contact email found anywhere on the page.
No postal address visible on the page.

Phone number listed (4.39543 22).

Domain & Encryption

Encryption Certificate

StatusValid

ProtocolTLSv1.3

IssuerLet's Encrypt · R13

ExpiresAug 13, 2026 (34d)

Self-signedNo

Hosting & Technology

HostingDDOS-GUARD LTD

Server locationRU

Web serverddos-guard

PopularityTop 100k worldwide

Redirect Chain

Hops

Cross-domain

Lookalike

Punycode

1301http://sports.ru/
2301https://sports.ru/
3200https://www.sports.ru/

Server Reputation

Abuse Intelligence

Confidence score0%

Reports on file0

ISPDDOS-GUARD LTD

Usage typeContent Delivery Network

Referenced Domains

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

googletagmanager.com google.com yastatic.net mc.yandex.ru

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 sports.ru and not a lookalike like s-ports.ru.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
If you have first-hand experience with this site — good or bad — share it with the MalwareTips community.
Open

Final Verdict

Trust / 100

Final Verdict·sports.ru

SAFE

Sports.ru is a long-running Russian sports news portal. The domain has been active since 1998 with a registered Russian company behind it and zero malicious detections.

The site appears safe for reading sports news. No special precautions are required beyond normal browsing habits.

AV engines

Domain age

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Flagged

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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 sports.ru. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
sports.ru passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 95/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
Yes. sports.ru presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · R13, expiring in 34 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report sports.ru as clean.
No. sports.ru is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
sports.ru resolves to an IP operated by DDOS-GUARD LTD in RU (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.
Yes. sports.ru 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.
This is a permanent record of the scan run on July 10, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around sports.ru have changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan, which re-runs every check from scratch and publishes an updated report.

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