No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is the-sun.com legit or a scam?
This looks safe to use.
Official US edition of the 1964-founded British tabloid The Sun, registered since 1997 with clean security scans.
Analysis Summary
Website Preview

Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
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 displays a professionally rendered news website with standard editorial and advertising content, showing no visual indicators of a scam or malicious intent.
What our vision model saw
5 signalsProfessional news outlet layout with standard navigation bar
Legitimate advertising banner for realtor.com integrated into the page
Functional UI elements including search and sign-in buttons
High-quality imagery and consistent typography
No visible urgency tactics or fake trust badges
Intelligence
The domain the-sun.com has been registered for 29.2 years under News Corp ownership and resolves to a legitimate news site. Our antivirus network returned zero detections across 92 engines and the hosting IP carries no abuse reports. The page itself displays standard editorial content with no login forms, urgency tactics, or scam-family triggers. Two scam reports reference third-party advertisers that appeared on the site rather than the newspaper itself. The combination of extreme domain age, clean infrastructure signals, and business registration under News Group Newspapers supports a safe classification.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for the-sun.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- The domain the-sun.com is the official website for the US edition of The Sun, a major British tabloid newspaper founded in 1964.
- Media watchdog groups like Media Bias/Fact Check rate the publication as 'Right Biased' with 'Mixed' factual reporting due to sensationalism and failed fact checks.
- Users on Trustpilot have reported third-party advertising scams (e.g., 'MYIQ' test) appearing on the site that led to unauthorized bank charges.
- The domain has been registered since 1997 and is owned by News Corp, a global mass media company.
- The site is frequently confused with 'The Sun Magazine' (thesunmagazine.org), which has issued warnings about fraudulent subscription renewal scams using its name.
- Trustpilotopen
"Allow a partner called MYIQ to advertise on their website for an IQ test costing .50P, but the scammers steal 60 pounds from your bank account! Thousands of people have been scammed!!"
- The Sun Magazineopen
"A few months ago, some subscribers received fraudulent renewal offers promoting The Sun at an inflated price. This mail did not come from us."
- Quoraopen
"Football fans of my acquaintance say it's very reliable about football, and gets the big stories about transfers and manager sackings before anyone else."
Published by News Group Newspapers division of News UK, a subsidiary of News Corp.
an independent review aggregator contains two reports of third-party advertisers (including an IQ test service) that appeared on the site and resulted in unauthorized bank charges. The Sun Magazine has published warnings about fraudulent subscription renewal offers sent in its name. A Quora user described the site as reliable for football transfer news. Business records confirm ownership by News Group Newspapers under News Corp.
Domain Timeline
- May 14, 1997Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 29 years old today.
- Jul 14, 2026Latest security review — Reviewed as safe
This scan re-ran every check and found no active threat signals.
the-sun.com 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 · referencedThe plumbing behind the site — who registered it, how it’s encrypted, where it’s hosted, and where it links out. A valid certificate or a calm server doesn’t mean the business is honest — scam sites pass these checks too. Use this to corroborate the verdict, not to overturn it.
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.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://the-sun.com/
- 2302https://the-sun.com/
- 3200https://www.the-sun.com/
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 the-sun.com and not a lookalike like t-he-sun.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.
- OpenDiscuss this site on the forum
If you have first-hand experience with this site — good or bad — share it with the MalwareTips community.
Final Verdict
The site is the official US edition of the long-established British tabloid The Sun. The domain has been registered since 1997 and shows no malicious detections. Third-party ads on the site have drawn complaints about unauthorized charges.
Safety FAQ
Common questions, 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 the-sun.com, so it appears legitimate. All 92 antivirus engines we queried report it clean, and the domain is 29.2 years old, registered on May 14, 1997 — established domains are far less likely to be scams. Even so, always double-check the exact address in your browser, because phishing emails routinely spoof real, trusted domains like this one.
- the-sun.com passed our automated checks with a trust score of 86/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged it at the time of the last scan, and its signals line up with an established, legitimate site. Treat any unexpected login prompt or payment request on it with the same caution you would anywhere.
- Yes — and this is worth understanding. Even trustworthy domains get spoofed in phishing emails (a fake message that only looks like it's from the-sun.com), and legitimate sites are occasionally compromised on specific pages. A clean verdict means the site itself checks out today; it does not mean every email or link claiming to be from the-sun.com is genuine. Always reach the site by typing the address yourself rather than clicking links in unexpected messages.
- No — all 92 antivirus and blocklist engines in our malware network currently report the-sun.com as clean. That's a good sign, though antivirus coverage is only one of the many signals we weigh, and brand-new scam sites can appear clean before vendors catch up.
- No — the-sun.com is not currently on the major browser blocklist feeds that Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge rely on. Note that blocklists can lag behind brand-new scam domains, so "not listed" is reassuring but not a guarantee on its own.
- the-sun.com is 29.2 years old, registered on May 14, 1997 through MarkMonitor Inc.. A multi-year registration history is one of the stronger signals against a scam, though it's never a guarantee on its own — established domains can still be misused.
- Yes — the-sun.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · YE2, valid for another 59 days. Important caveat: SSL only encrypts the connection between you and the site — it does not verify who runs it. Almost all scam sites now have valid SSL too, so a padlock alone never means "safe".
- the-sun.com resolves to an IP operated by Automattic, Inc in US (Content Delivery Network). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad — but hosting that doesn't match a brand's claimed country, or that sits on networks known for abuse, is one of the many signals we weigh alongside the verdict above.
- This report is a record of the scan run on July 14, 2026, and the verdict reflects that point in time. Scam sites change fast — they can go live, get flagged, or vanish within days — so if you believe something about the-sun.com has changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan that re-checks every signal from scratch and republishes an updated verdict.
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