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Direct Line | UK Insurance Quotes, Claims & SupportDirect Line offers UK insurance quotes, support and claims help for personal and business customers. Find car, home, pet and business cover online.

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Truth score

Customer satisfaction
Not enough reviews to say
From independent reviews, weighed by their number

Business details

Years in business
52 years
Founded by
Martin Long, Sir Peter John Wood
Domain age
29 years
Address
The Wharf, Neville Street, Leeds, LS1 4AZ
Email address
Not found
Phone number
+44 345 246 2853
Contact page
Not found
Website
directline.com
Social media

Customer reviews

SiteReviewsRating
Trustpilot35,001 reviewsNot found
Total35,001
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Summary

Is directline.com legit and trustworthy? Truth score 88 out of 100, high truth signals: 9 of 10 public checks clear, 1 for information. Legitimacy confidence: high. Customer satisfaction: not enough reviews to say.

directline.com is run by U K Insurance Limited, an active UK company registered at Companies House 52 years ago. Its website address was registered 29 years ago, and is locked against transfer to someone else. It has 35,001 reviews on Trustpilot. The postcode on its website matches its registered office. No malware or phishing warnings found for its website. We could not find an email address.

Important context: Truth Signal weighs public evidence about this business. A high score means strong evidence that the business is established and legitimate, not a promise that it is safe to buy from or that every purchase will go well. A low score means the evidence is thin or raises concerns, not that the business is unsafe or a scam.

Positives

  • An active UK company registered at Companies House, set up 52 years ago.
  • Its website address was registered 29 years ago.
  • 35,001 reviews on Trustpilot.
  • The postcode on its website matches its registered office at Companies House.
  • No malware or phishing warnings found for its website.

Not found

  • Email address information was not found from our checks.

Our technical team has been informed.

What they offer

Direct Line offers UK insurance quotes, support and claims help for personal and business customers. Find car, home, pet and business cover online.
— Direct Line, in their own wordsIts homepage
Getting help
Ways to get help
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How to check if directline.com is legit

9 clear · 1 for information

To check if directline.com is legit yourself, look at the same public records we did: the company register, who owns the web address and since when, customer reviews, visitor numbers, how long the site has existed, social profiles, malware lists, data breaches and email security. Each row below shows what that record says about directline.com; open a row to see the facts and the source to check them yourself. Step by step: how to know if a shopping site is legit.

Who they are

Company detailsAn active UK company registered at Companies House, set up 52 years ago
  • Its registered office at Companies House is The Wharf, Neville Street, Leeds, LS1 4AZ
  • Its latest accounts at Companies House run to 31 December 2025
  • Its directors and owners are named at Companies House
  • It has filed at Companies House regularly for the last five years, with no gap longer than 15 months
Country
Where the company is based
UK
Why we believe that
it is registered at Companies House as U K INSURANCE LIMITED, its legal pages give an address in England and Wales, its postcode is a UK postcode
Registration
Companies House registration
Registered as U K INSURANCE LIMITED
VAT number
Not found
Companies House register
Company found in official company register
Yes
Registered company name
U K INSURANCE LIMITED
Company status
active
Company age
52 years
Registered address
The Wharf, Neville Street, Leeds, LS1 4AZ
Accounts overdue
No
Confirmation statement overdue
No
Insolvency history
No
Registered office in dispute
No
Filing history consistent
Yes
Company type
Private limited company
Size and borrowing
Accounts filed
Full accountsThe most detailed kind a company files.
Secured loans (charges)
0No secured loans outstanding at Companies House.
Domain registrationIts website address was registered 29 years ago
  • Its website address is locked against being transferred to someone else
Domain age
29 years
Domain transfer lock enabled
Yes
Website detailsWe read 2 of its pages: terms and privacy
  • Company contact phone number is available
HTTPS enabled
Yes
Contact phone number found
+44 345 246 2853
Contact page found
Yes
Sources agreeing on postcode
2
What its pages say

Quoted word for word from directline.com.

Who you're buying from
“Registered Office: 36 St Andrew Square, Edinburgh EH2 2YB.” Terms page

Reputation and track record

Customer reviews35,001 reviews on Trustpilot
PlatformRatingReviews
TrustpilotUnknown35,001
SmartCustomerNot found
G2Not found
CapterraNot found
Reviews.ioNot found
FeefoNot found
TrustindexNot found
GoogleNot checked
Visitor trafficReal people visited its website in 24 of the last 24 months
  • Real people have visited its website since February 2021 or earlier
Monthly visitor data
Popularity among Chrome users
top 500,000 sites
First known user traffic
Feb 2021 or earlier
Months with real traffic, of the last 24
24
Traffic pattern
sustained
Rank jump in the last 12 months
none
Rank drop in the last 12 months
none
Web history and authorityThe Internet Archive first saved a copy of its website 27 years ago
Website archive history
27 years
Social presenceIt is on 4 social media platforms (Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube); the largest audience is 21,100 subscribers on YouTube
  • Its YouTube channel has 21,100 subscribers and 52 videos, the latest uploaded on 24 Jul 2025
PlatformProfileAudience
FacebookProfileUnknown
InstagramProfile3,788 followers
XProfileUnknown
LinkedInNot found
YouTubeProfile21,100 subscribers
TikTokNot found
Social platforms with discovered profiles
facebook, instagram, x, youtube
Social follower counts
24,888 followers in total
YouTube channel
52 videos, 21,100 subscribers, last upload 24 Jul 2025

Safety

Malware and phishingNo malware or phishing warnings found for its website
Malware or phishing threat status
None
Data breach historyNo known data breach involving the company
Known data breaches found
0
Domain and email securityIts email is protected: mail forged in its name is blocked
Email
MX records
Yes
SPF record
Yes
DKIM key
Yes
DMARC record
Yes
DMARC policy
reject
Certificate
Security certificate browsers warn about
No
Certificate issuer
GlobalSign nv-sa
Certificate type
OV
Certificate expires
25 Jan 2027
Hosting
Nameservers
ns-1452.awsdns-53.org
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Address
18.202.4.138
52.31.75.0
108.131.234.189

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