No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is thesun.co.uk legit or a scam?
Official UK newspaper site thesun.co.uk with clean scans, 29-year domain age, and verified company registration since 1960.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The site presents itself as the well-known British tabloid The Sun and matches all legitimacy signals in our scan. The domain is over 29 years old with valid SSL and zero detections from our antivirus network or blocklists. Our research confirms the operating company News Group Newspapers Limited has been registered in the UK since 1960. The single independent review aggregator mention refers only to third-party adverts on the site, not to the newspaper itself being fraudulent. Visual analysis shows a standard professional news layout with no scam indicators.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
Visual Screenshot 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
Screenshot shows a fully-rendered, professional page from the legitimate UK news site The Sun with standard editorial layout and no scam indicators.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for thesun.co.uk, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Official website of The Sun, British tabloid newspaper published by News Group Newspapers (News UK / News Corp subsidiary)
- Wikipedia confirms website thesun.co.uk; company active in UK since 1960 (Companies House #00679215)
- Domain age listed as 10605 days (~29 years); registered via Markmonitor Inc.
- Trustpilot page for www.thesun.co.uk shows 654 reviews with average score 1.3/5, complaints focus on ads/pop-ups/paywalls
- Site has dedicated pages for scams/fraud news and editorial complaints via IPSO
- Separate US edition at the-sun.com; thesun.co.uk is the primary UK domain
- Trustpilotopen
"Notice on my sun online news theres a lot of scam adverts for toilet cleaners,fungus on toes and similar as i can tell by adverts similarities that there basically same scammers"
News Group Newspapers Limited, company number 00679215, incorporated 30 December 1960, registered office 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF
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.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://thesun.co.uk/
- 2301https://thesun.co.uk/
- 3200https://www.thesun.co.uk/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 thesun.co.uk and not a lookalike like t-hesun.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.
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Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
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 thesun.co.uk. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- thesun.co.uk passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 87/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. thesun.co.uk presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · E7, expiring in 52 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- thesun.co.uk is 29.1 years old, registered on 5/19/1997 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 thesun.co.uk as clean.
- No. thesun.co.uk is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- thesun.co.uk resolves to an IP operated by Automattic, 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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