billabongbrief.com scores 17 out of 100, rated High Risk. 1 regulator warnings, 0 antivirus detections. Last scanned Oct 26, 2026. Source: https://billabongbrief.com
billabongbrief.com
Is billabongbrief.com a scam?
Trust Score
17/ 100
High Risk0-2425-4445-6970-8485-100
Risk assessment
Every domain starts at 100. 3 scoring chains fired against billabongbrief.com, and every one of them is listed below with the tier it reached. It is a measurement, not a ruling on whether the business is legitimate.
- RegulatoryTier 1
Flagged by 1 financial regulator
- Domain AgeTier 5
Domain < 30 days
- Cookie SecurityTier 3
0% cookies secure
Site identity
Billabong Brief is an Australian news and explainer website publishing articles about personal finance, cost of living, household budgeting, small business, and AI tools for everyday Australians.
Page capture
Identity
- IP
- 104.21.24.18
- ASN
- AS13335
- Country
- United States

- Domain age
- 26 days
- Registrar
- Key-Systems GmbH

- Server
- nginx/1.25.5
- Hosting
- Cloudflare, Inc.

- Emails
- [email protected]
- Phones
- 1800 007 007
- Tech detected
- 2
Scan history
The score across every scan we hold, the eight signal families behind the current one, and the dates the engine recorded on the way.
Domain history
Recorded scans: Oct 26, 2026
Equal-height risk bands; score intervals are not linear.
Score history data
| Date (UTC) | Score | Verdict |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 26, 2026 | 17/100 | High Risk |
- SEP 292027Domain expiresWHOISDomain billabongbrief.com is set to expire.
- DEC 282026SSL certificate expiresSSL CheckSSL certificate will expire.
- OCT 262026First scansnyferTrust score 17 out of 100.
- OCT 262026Warned by ASICRegulator ASIC (AU) published an investor warning for billabongbrief.com.
- SEP 292026Domain updatedWHOISbillabongbrief.com WHOIS record was updated.
- SEP 292026Domain createdWHOISDomain billabongbrief.com was registered.
- SEP 292026SSL certificate issuedSSL CheckSSL certificate issued by Let's Encrypt.
Signal profile data
- Maturity: 4 out of 100. 26 days old
- AV clarity: 100 out of 100. 0 of 92 engines flag it
- Regulators: 65 out of 100. 1 regulator warning
- Network: 92 out of 100. No malicious neighbours
- Blacklist: 100 out of 100. Not blacklisted
- Trust zone: 74 out of 100. .com top-level domain
- Infra: 57 out of 100. Valid SSL · 2 tech detected
- Hosting: 75 out of 100. Hosted in US
Threat intelligence
1 independent source has flagged this domain: security vendors, public authorities that have published warnings, and blocklist feeds. Nothing that found it clean is listed.
Infrastructure
Hosting, registrar, certificate and nameservers, as our crawler measured them rather than as the site describes itself.
Page behavior
Everything it requested, everything it stored on the visitor's machine, and every host it talked to while doing it.
Page timing
0.54stotal page load
DNS Lookup0ms
TCP Connect38ms
TLS Handshake30ms
TTFB114ms
Content Download2ms
DOM Loaded540ms
Page Load541ms
Resources
346 KB34 requests
scripts7 · 21%
fetch7 · 21%
images6 · 18%
fonts5 · 15%
stylesheets3 · 9%
xhr2 · 6%
documents2 · 6%
other2 · 6%
Cookies
2
Secure
0
HttpOnly
3
Session
| name | domain | flags |
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| _v | billabongbrief.com | - |
| adxe_vid | .adxe.com | S |
| adxe_sync | .billabongbrief.com | S |
Network stats
- 34
- total requests
- 346 KB
- total bytes
- 2
- failed requests
- 11
- unique domains
- 68%
- third party
- 100%
- https
HTTP transactions
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