Is dailymail.co.uk safe?

Scam, privacy and security report. Current verdict: Trusted · checked 2 times.

TrustedDeep scan

www.dailymail.co.uk

Redirects to www.dailymail.com

We found no signs of scams, deception or heavy data-mining.

Scanned 20 h ago (8 Nov 2026, 18:36 UTC) · 98% confidence · 29/30 checks completed

Domain age

30 years old

Registrar

Nom-iq Ltd. dba COM LAUDE

Hosting

AKAMAI-AS - Akamai Technologies, Inc., US · NL

Certificate

DigiCert Inc (OV)

Trackers

1 tracker

Key takeaways

  • “As seen on BBC, Fortune” — with no link to any articleMedium
  • Sets tracking cookies without asking (2 cookies, 1 tracker)Medium
  • Page decodes hidden code and executes itLow

Is anything off about the site itself?

Domain age, DNS and TLS health, look-alike domains, redirects, cloaking and obfuscated code.

100Weirdness & technical anomalies

Page decodes hidden code and executes it

Low

A script decodes an encoded string and runs it as code (eval/new Function/document.write). This is how malicious payloads are smuggled past filters.

Redirects to a different website: www.dailymail.com

Info

The address you entered sends visitors to another domain. Check that the destination is where you expected to go.

Trust signals

Email authentication (SPF and an enforcing DMARC policy) is configured

The domain publishes SPF and an enforcing DMARC policy, which makes it harder to forge email from it.

Organization-validated certificate issued to Associated Newspapers Limited

The certificate authority verified the organization behind this domain, which free automated certificates do not do.

Domain registered 30 years ago

Long-lived domains are rarely throw-away scam sites (though they can still be compromised).

What our isolated browser saw (screenshot)

Screenshot of www.dailymail.co.uk taken during the scan

Trust score over time

2 scans since 8 Nov 2026, 18:36 UTC

What changed

  1. 8 Nov 2026, 18:36 UTCVerdict changed to Trusted (69 → 97)
  2. 8 Nov 2026, 18:36 UTCNew: “As seen on BBC, Fortune” — with no link to any article
  3. 8 Nov 2026, 18:36 UTCResolved: Fake news article using King Charles to promote a product
  4. 8 Nov 2026, 18:32 UTCFirst scan: trust score 69/100 (Low risk)