No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is techradar.com legit or a scam?
Long-established tech news site with a 22-year-old domain and legitimate corporate ownership by Future plc.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The domain has existed for 8218 days and belongs to Future plc, a publicly listed UK company incorporated in 1999. Security checks returned clean results with no blocklist hits and a zero abuse score on the hosting IP. The page content matches a standard technology news outlet with no login forms, countdowns, or scam-family triggers. independent review aggregator shows 132 reviews averaging 1.2/5, mostly criticising affiliate links and product recommendations rather than the site itself being fraudulent. Business registration records confirm active status with a verifiable UK address. These factors together indicate a legitimate publication rather than a malicious operation.
Website Preview
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 techradar.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- - Owned by Future plc (UK public company, founded 1985, listed on LSE); TechRadar launched ~2007-2008 as consumer tech site
- - Trustpilot page for www.techradar.com shows 132 reviews with overall score 1.2/5; multiple complaints about affiliate links, coupons, and recommended products
- - Rated GREEN for credibility by NewsGuard; claims independent reviews, no payment for reviews, real-world testing
- - Part of Future US Inc.; editorial teams in US, UK, Australia; covers tech news, reviews, buying guides
- - Reddit threads criticize review bias (e.g., favoring certain brands) and affiliate practices but no scam or fraud reports from major sources
- - No WHOIS or domain ownership red flags; long-established domain matching official site description and Wikipedia
- Trustpilotopen
"a scammy website that says he has coupon links for you, the truth is that the coupons are 100% fake, but they send you to the site themself and get the affiliate money from you."
- Trustpilotopen
"I tried the number one software they recommended for file recovery but the site was a scam and their software doesn't work at all. The software is EaseUS (do not pay for this app) And do not trust anything from Techradar."
Parent company Future plc (company number 03757874), incorporated 22 April 1999, registered office Quay House, The Ambury, Bath, BA1 1UA; active public limited company listed on London Stock Exchange
independent review aggregator lists multiple complaints about affiliate links and product recommendations on the site. Business records confirm ownership by Future plc, an active UK public company incorporated in 1999. Reddit discussions mention review bias but contain no scam or fraud reports from major sources. NewsGuard rates the outlet as credible.
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 postal address visible on the page.
- Phone number listed ((59 130 246).
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://techradar.com/
- 2200https://www.techradar.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 techradar.com and not a lookalike like t-echradar.com.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
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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 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 techradar.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- techradar.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 83/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. techradar.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · R13, expiring in 45 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- techradar.com is 22.5 years old, registered on 12/6/2003 through Lexsynergy Limited. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. techradar.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- techradar.com resolves to an IP operated by Fastly, 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.
- 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.
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