Is whatsonwales.com safe?
https://whatsonwales.com/
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How we checked
Coverage: complete · 6 of 6 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (56 of 93 engines answered): completed
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
What's On Wales looks like an ordinary Welsh events and lifestyle guide with no detected threats
whatsonwales.com is a guide to things to do in Wales. It runs features such as a Halloween round-up for South Wales and has town listings from Aberdare to Newport. Security checks found nothing malicious, the connection is encrypted, and the domain is about 501 days old. We found no shop, sign-up form or payment step. The operator behind the site is not identified in the material we reviewed, and contact details further down the long page were not reviewed. That uncertainty keeps the score in Low Risk rather than Safe.
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Where this site sits
- Dangerous1–20
- High Risk21–44
- Moderate Risk45–69
- Low Risk70–84
- Safe85–100
The score combines saved evidence strength and analysis quality. Coverage is reported separately.
Why 80/100
Low Risk covers scores 70–84. No adverse finding was saved; 3 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
No adverse finding was saved with this report.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsNo detections across 93 engines and no Safe Browsing warning.
- SupportsThe saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection
- SupportsThe domain is about 501 days old.
Community reviews never change the Safety Score.
01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
whatsonwales.com is a guide to things to do in Wales. It runs features such as a Halloween round-up for South Wales and has town listings from Aberdare to Newport. Security checks found nothing malicious, the connection is encrypted, and the domain is about 501 days old. We found no shop, sign-up form or payment step. The operator behind the site is not identified in the material we reviewed, and contact details further down the long page were not reviewed. That uncertainty keeps the score in Low Risk rather than Safe.
Clean technical checks, operator not confirmed
None of 93 security engines flagged the site, and the browser threat feed shows no warning. The site also uses a valid encrypted connection. These results mean nothing harmful was detected. They do not prove who runs the site.
The domain is roughly 501 days old. The homepage was longer than our reader's limit, so contact or ownership details in the footer were not reviewed.
What visitors actually see
The site lists Welsh towns alphabetically and links out to local tourism and information sites, such as a Cardiff visitor guide. It also names cinemas and venues like Cineworld, Odeon, Vue and the Borough Theatre. These outbound links are informational, and none of them was marked as a paid or affiliate link.
Some section links point to a similarly spelled domain, whatonwales.com. This is worth noticing, but the reviewed evidence does not show any harm from it.
Why the score is 80
The saved checks found no material threat, but the evidence was not strong enough for the highest Safe tier. Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
0/ 93
No detectionsFresh result
No detections across 56 engines that rated this URL
No antivirus engine that answered raised an adverse result; 37 had no rating for this URL. This is one signal, not a guarantee.
- Malicious
- 0
- Suspicious
- 0
- Total
- 93
All 93 engine results
- 0xSI_f33d - Unrated
- Abusix - Clean
- Acronis - Clean
- ADMINUSLabs - Clean
- AILabs (MONITORAPP) - Clean
- AlienVault - Clean
- alphaMountain.ai - Unrated
- AlphaSOC - Unrated
- Antiy-AVL - Clean
- ArcSight Threat Intelligence - Unrated
- AutoShun - Unrated
- Bfore.Ai PreCrime - Unrated
- BitDefender - Clean
- Bkav - Unrated
- BlockList - Clean
- Blueliv - Clean
- Certego - Clean
- ChainPatrol - Unrated
- Chong Lua Dao - Clean
- CINS Army - Clean
- CRDF - Clean
- Criminal IP - Unrated
- CSIS Security Group - Unrated
- CTX AI - Clean
- Cyan - Unrated
- Cyble - Clean
- CyRadar - Clean
- desenmascara.me - Clean
- DNS8 - Unrated
- Dr.Web - Clean
- EmergingThreats - Clean
- Emsisoft - Clean
- Ermes - Unrated
- ESET - Clean
- ESTsecurity - Clean
- Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - Unrated
- Fortinet - Clean
- Fortra - Unrated
- G-Data - Clean
- GCP Abuse Intelligence - Unrated
- Google Safe Browsing - Clean
- GreenSnow - Clean
- GreyNoise - Unrated
- Gridinsoft - Unrated
- Guardpot - Unrated
- Heimdal Security - Clean
- Hunt.io Intelligence - Unrated
- IPsum - Clean
- Juniper Networks - Clean
- K7AntiVirus - Unrated
- Kaspersky - Clean
- LevelBlue - Unrated
- Lionic - Clean
- Lumu - Unrated
- Malwared - Clean
- MalwarePatrol - Clean
- MalwareURL - Unrated
- Mimecast - Unrated
- Netcraft - Unrated
- OpenPhish - Clean
- Orcapot - Unrated
- PhishFort - Unrated
- Phishing Database - Clean
- Phishtank - Clean
- PREBYTES - Clean
- PrecisionSec - Unrated
- Quick Heal - Clean
- Quttera - Clean
- Rising - Clean
- SafeToOpen - Unrated
- Sangfor - Clean
- Sansec eComscan - Unrated
- Scantitan - Clean
- SCUMWARE.org - Clean
- Seclookup - Clean
- Snort IP sample list - Unrated
- SOCRadar - Unrated
- Sophos - Clean
- StopForumSpam - Clean
- Sucuri SiteCheck - Clean
- Synthient - Unrated
- ThreatHive - Clean
- URLhaus - Clean
- URLQuery - Unrated
- Viettel Threat Intelligence - Clean
- VIPRE - Unrated
- ViriBack - Clean
- VX Vault - Clean
- Webroot - Clean
- Xcitium Verdict Cloud - Clean
- Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
- ZeroCERT - Clean
- ZeroFox - Unrated
Security Scans
Checked against the browser threat feeds available to this scan — no hit.
What we observed
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Visual context from the captured page
What's On Wales 100 Things to Do This Halloween in South Wales – 2026
What the captured page showed
2 observations- 01
What's On Wales
- 02
100 Things to Do This Halloween in South Wales – 2026
What the page says about itself
What the site says about itself, quoted from the pages we read. The site wrote these words; they are not our findings.
- Page title
What's on Wales | Lifestyle Magazine for Wales
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
What's on Wales | Lifestyle Magazine for Wales
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 56 antivirus results.
What independent research found
The search completed without a material external warning or corroborating report.
What remains unverified
The checks completed, but ownership, business claims, and future site behavior can still change after this snapshot.
What kind of site and risk is this?
Threat category
No threat category confirmed
Service and business model
Content
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
- 01No detections across 93 engines and no Safe Browsing warning.
- 02The domain is about 501 days old.
Web research findings
Independent findings for whatsonwales.com, including public complaints, named review sources, registration records, and look-alike-domain evidence. A missing result is shown as unverified, never converted into a clean bill of health.
No independently sourced scam reports or credibility records were found for whatsonwales.com. That is common for new or low-traffic sites and does not clear the site.
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
04 · Domain & Infrastructure
Domain & infrastructure
The 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.
Infrastructure map
How the saved page connected to the wider web.
- Domainwhatsonwales.com
- Redirects towhatsonwales.com
- Hosted bySucuri
- Referencesfonts.googleapis.com · whatonwales.com
Domain Timeline
- Jun 13, 2025Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 1.3 years old when this review was saved.
- Oct 28, 2026Saved security review — Rated Low Risk
This saved scan found no material threat, but the evidence was not strong enough for the highest Safe tier.
Contact Verification
Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.
- Links to 2 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Certificate issued for whatsonwales.com.
A shared Sucuri address answers for many sites, so it is not the site's own server and says nothing about who runs it.
Scripts, fonts and CDNs
- Google Fonts
Payment providers the page loads
None seen among the outside domains we saved.
Read from the first 20 outside domains the page loads and the shop platform it uses; the web server and platform rows are under Hosting & Technology. A payment script on the page does not prove the shop accepts that method at checkout, or that you are protected.
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
05 · Evidence Ledger
Evidence ledger
- Antiviruscomplete
- Browser threat feedcomplete
- Page contentcomplete
- Analysiscomplete
- Visual evidencecomplete
The conclusion is supported by the evidence saved with this report.
Technical threat
unknownMalware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.
No confirmed evidence in this dimension.
Operator / customer risk
unknownComplaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.
No confirmed evidence in this dimension.
Source coverage and freshness
Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.
| Source | Result | Completion | Finding | Freshness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antivirus | 0 of 93 engines flagged | Completed | No adverse finding | fresh · analysed Oct 28, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 28, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 28, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 2 visible observations saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 28, 2026 |
| Independent research | The search completed without a material external finding | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 28, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result0 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessfresh · analysed Oct 28, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 28, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 28, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result2 visible observations saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 28, 2026
- Independent research
- ResultThe search completed without a material external finding
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 28, 2026
07 · Safety FAQ
Safety FAQ
Common questions, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers reflect the saved verdict and evidence in this report.
Is whatsonwales.com a scam or is it safe?
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08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
What's On Wales looks like an ordinary Welsh events and lifestyle guide with no detected threats
whatsonwales.com is a guide to things to do in Wales. It runs features such as a Halloween round-up for South Wales and has town listings from Aberdare to Newport. Security checks found nothing malicious, the connection is encrypted, and the domain is about 501 days old. We found no shop, sign-up form or payment step. The operator behind the site is not identified in the material we reviewed, and contact details further down the long page were not reviewed. That uncertainty keeps the score in Low Risk rather than Safe.
09 · Community
Community
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