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Kent News & Sport, live breaking news from Kent & Medway - PoliticsRead the latest live breaking news, sport, business and what's on in Kent and Medway - KentOnline from KM Media Group

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Business details

Category
News and magazines
Years in business
13 years
Founded
1890
Places to visit
3 officesRochester (2), Gravesend
Sells
Subscription or membership
Kind of seller
Information or media
Licensed trade
No licence normally needed
Domain age
27 years
Email address
Not found
Phone number
+44 800 525450
Social media
Not found

Do the sources agree?

Address
Medway House Sir Thomas Longley Road, Medway City Estate, Rochester, ME2 4DU, England Its website agrees Companies House agrees OpenStreetMap not found Web Data Commons not found
Company name
KM MEDIA GROUP LIMITED Companies House agrees Its website differs

Sources give different names · Its website has Kent Online

Customer reviews, accreditations and complaints

No reviews foundWe looked on Trustpilot, SmartCustomer, G2, Capterra, Reviews.io, Feefo, Trustindex, ComplaintsBoard and ConsumerAffairs

Customer satisfactionInsufficient evidence· No reviews found
App experienceInsufficient evidence· No app ratings found

Summary

Is kentonline.co.uk legit and trustworthy? Truth score 70 out of 100, high truth signals: 7 public checks clear, 1 not found, 2 for information. Legitimacy confidence: high. App experience: insufficient evidence. Customer satisfaction: insufficient evidence.

kentonline.co.uk is run by Km Media Group Limited, an active UK company registered at Companies House 13 years ago, and was founded in 1890. Its website address was registered 27 years ago, and is locked against transfer to someone else. The postcode on its website matches its registered office. No malware or phishing warnings found for its website. We could not find social media profiles, a customer rating or an email address.

Positives

  1. An active UK company registered at Companies House, set up 13 years ago.
  2. Its website address was registered 27 years ago.
  3. The postcode on its website matches its registered office at Companies House.
  4. No malware or phishing warnings found for its website.

Not found

  1. Social presence information was not found from our checks.
  2. Reviews information was not found from our checks.
  3. Email address information was not found from our checks.

Our technical team has been informed.

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.

What they offer

EdinburghGlasgowBelfastManchesterBirminghamLondon3
Read the latest live breaking news, sport, business and what's on in Kent and Medway - KentOnline from KM Media Group
— Km Media Group Limited, in their own words
Where to find them
Places
3 offices · 2 towns
  • Rochester2
  • Gravesend1
About them
Best for
“SPONSORED EDITORIAL Five reasons to buy the OtherPhone: The safety-first smartphone designed for children in collaboration with the Mumsnet community.”
What makes them different
““The only reason I can see for continuing to act in this way is to develop a misguided perception of ongoing trust between the officer and the subject for future interactions, i.e. he did what he promised.”

How to check if kentonline.co.uk is legit

To check if kentonline.co.uk is legit yourself, look at the same public records we did: the company register, who owns the web address and since when, customer reviews (where buyers leave praise and complaints), 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 kentonline.co.uk; 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 13 years ago
  • Its registered office at Companies House is Medway House Sir Thomas Longley Road, Medway City Estate, Rochester, ME2 4DU, England
  • Its latest accounts at Companies House run to 30 March 2025
  • It has filed at Companies House regularly for the last five years, with no gap longer than 15 months
  • Registered with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) to handle personal data
Country
Where the company is based
UK
Why we believe that
it is registered at Companies House, which is a registration for UK businesses
Which countries the company serves
UK
Why we believe that
its address ends .uk, £ prices on its homepage
Registration
Companies House registration
Registered as KM MEDIA GROUP LIMITED
Data protection registration (ICO)
Registered, number ZB464141
VAT number
Not found
Companies House register
Company found in official company register
Yes
Registered company name
KM MEDIA GROUP LIMITED
Company status
active
Company age
13 years
Registered address
Medway House Sir Thomas Longley Road, Medway City Estate, Rochester, ME2 4DU, England
Accounts overdue
No
Confirmation statement overdue
No
Insolvency history
No
Registered office in dispute
No
Filing history consistent
Yes
ICO data-protection fee payer
Yes
Registered to do
58130 Publishing of newspapers
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.
From Wikipedia
Industry
Media
Founded
1890
Domain registrationIts website address was registered 27 years ago
  • Its website address is locked against being transferred to someone else
Domain age
27 years
Domain transfer lock enabled
Yes
Website detailsWe read 4 of its pages: contact, about, terms and privacy
HTTPS enabled
Yes
Contact phone number found
+44 800 525450
Contact page found
Yes
Sources agreeing on postcode
2
Hosting company
KM Group
What its pages say
Ways to contact them
+44 800 525450
In their own words
“KentOnline is a multi-award winning regional news website which was first launched in 1999 to bring daily news, sport and entertainment news to the people of Kent. In the past 25 years KentOnline has established itself as one of the leading regional news websites in the UK and is read by millions of people every month. Our writers work day in day out to keep our readers informed about the topics that matter most to them and get to issues at the heart of the community.”
Search engines and AILets in search engines; blocks AI training and 4 of 5 AI answer tools

Which search engines and AI tools its robots.txt file lets read the website. Search engines list it in results; AI training tools learn from it; AI answer tools read it to answer someone’s question.

Search engines

All allowed

Google Search
Allowed by defaultGooglebot
Bing
Allowed by defaultBingbot
AI training

All blocked

OpenAI
Blocked by its robots.txtGPTBot
Anthropic
Blocked by its robots.txtClaudeBot
Google AI
Blocked by its robots.txtGoogle-Extended
Apple AI
Blocked by its robots.txtApplebot-Extended
Common Crawl
Blocked by its robots.txtCCBot
Meta
Blocked by its robots.txtmeta-externalagent
ByteDance (TikTok)
Blocked by its robots.txtBytespider
AI answers

4 of 5 blocked

ChatGPT search
Blocked by its robots.txtOAI-SearchBot
ChatGPT
Blocked by its robots.txtChatGPT-User
Claude search
Blocked by its robots.txtClaude-SearchBot
Claude
Allowed by defaultClaude-User
Perplexity
Blocked by its robots.txtPerplexityBot
User-agent: AhrefsBot
User-agent: AI2Bot
User-agent: Ai2Bot-Dolma
User-agent: Amazonbot
User-agent: anthropic-ai
User-agent: Applebot
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
User-agent: Buck/2.4.2
User-agent: Bytespider
User-agent: CCBot
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
User-agent: Claude-Web
User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
User-agent: cohere-ai
User-agent: Diffbot
User-agent: DuckAssistBot
User-agent: FriendlyCrawler
User-agent: Google-Extended
User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: iaskspider/2.0
User-agent: ICC-Crawler
User-agent: ImagesiftBot
User-agent: img2dataset
User-agent: ISSCyberRiskCrawler
User-agent: Kangaroo Bot
User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher
User-agent: Meta-WebIndexer
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
User-agent: PanguBot
User-agent: PerplexityBot
User-agent: PetalBot
User-agent: Timpibot
User-agent: VelenPublicWebCrawler
User-agent: Webzio-Extended
User-agent: YouBot
Disallow: /
Sourcesrobots.txt

Reputation and track record

Customer reviews, accreditations and complaintsNo customer reviews found
  • We found no page for it on any review website, such as Trustpilot
Visitor trafficReal people visited its website in 24 of the last 24 months
  • Real people have visited its website since February 2021 or earlier
  • It is among the 100,000 most-visited sites on the internet (Cloudflare Radar)
Monthly visitor data
Popularity among Chrome users
top 50,000 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
Cloudflare Radar
Popularity across the internet
top 100,000 sites
Where its visitors are

Share of people looking up kentonline.co.uk, by country, over the last 2 days.

Argentina 0.8%Bangladesh 0.8%Brazil 5.9%Canada 0.8%Switzerland 0.8%Germany 2.5%Spain 1.7%Finland 3.4%France 2.5%United Kingdom 14.4%Indonesia 2.5%Ireland 0.8%India 2.5%Japan 0.8%Lao People's Democratic Republic 0.8%Mali 0.8%Mexico 0.8%Netherlands 1.7%New Zealand 1.7%Philippines 0.8%Paraguay 0.8%Saudi Arabia 0.8%Ukraine 1.7%United States 24.6%Vietnam 0.8%South Africa 0.8%Singapore 18.6%Hong Kong 4.2%
  • Over 50%
  • 5 to 50%
  • 1 to 5%
  • 0.2 to 1%
  • Under 0.2%
  • None seen
  1. 1United States24.6%
  2. 2Singapore18.6%
  3. 3United Kingdom14.4%
  4. 4Brazil5.9%
  5. 5Hong Kong4.2%
  6. 6Finland3.4%
  7. 7Germany2.5%
  8. 8France2.5%
  9. 9Indonesia2.5%
  10. 10India2.5%

Top 10 of 28 countries.

Web history and authorityThe Internet Archive first saved a copy of its website 26 years ago
Website archive history
26 years
Social presenceWe could not check how big its social media following is: the check ran out of time.

What data this site collects about you

What its privacy policy saysWe found this business stores and uses your data
May make automated decisions or build a profile about you.
“You also have rights in relation to automated decision making and profiling.”
Says how long it keeps your data.
“We retain this information for no longer than 6 months following the closing date for submissions.”
Tracking tools on its homepageGoogle Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Google Ads and Meta Pixel

Named in its homepage's code when we read it. Others may load later, so this list may not be complete.

Google Analytics
Counts your visits and what you look at.
Google Tag Manager
Loads other tracking tools, which may not be listed here.
Google Ads
Tracks what you do to show you Google adverts.
Meta Pixel
Tells Facebook and Instagram what you do on its site, for adverts.

Safety

Malware and phishingNo malware or phishing warnings found for its websiteThis check is not perfect: it can miss a harmful site, and it can wrongly warn about a safe one.
Malware or phishing threat status
None found
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
DMARC record
Yes
DMARC policy
reject
Certificate
Security certificate browsers warn about
No
Certificate issuer
ZeroSSL GmbH
Certificate type
DV
Certificate expires
3 Jan 2027
Hosting
Nameservers
ns1.namecity.com
ns2.namecity.com
Address
176.12.106.28

Proof of ownership

What the business has done to prove it runs this website. Each proof adds points to its truth score, up to 5. A proof it has not added is never counted against it.

DNS recordNot added yet+3 possible
What we check
A record the business adds in its domain's settings. Only someone who runs the website can add one.
When we check
On every check. The points stay only while the record is there.
Points
0 of 3 added
Sourcekentonline.co.uk's DNS records
Run kentonline.co.uk? Add the record and 3 points are added to its truth score.Prove you run this website
Email at its own domainNot added yet+1 possible
What we check
That someone at the business has confirmed an email address at its own website's domain.
When we check
When the address is confirmed. It counts from then on.
Points
0 of 1 added
SourceTruth Signal's own records
Run kentonline.co.uk? Confirm an email address at the domain and 1 point is added to its truth score.Prove you run this website
Lets our checker read itNot added yet+1 possible
What we check
That its robots.txt file names our checker, TruthSignal, and lets it read the whole website.
When we check
On every check. The point stays only while the file allows it.
Points
0 of 1 added
Sourcekentonline.co.uk/robots.txt
Run kentonline.co.uk? Let our checker read the whole website and 1 point is added to its truth score.Prove you run this website
Points added to its truth score0 of 5
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