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# kentonline.co.uk

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## Website

kentonline.co.uk

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

Checked on 12 Nov 2026, 21:32 Unclaimed

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## Truth score

Truth score 70 out of 100, High truth signals. Customer satisfaction: insufficient evidence

70 / 100

High truth signals

## Business details

Category: News and magazines

Years in business: 13 years

Founded: 1890

Places to visit: 3 offices Rochester (2), Gravesend

Sells: Subscription or membership

Kind of seller: Information or media

Licensed trade: No licence normally needed

Domain age: 27 years

Address: [Medway House Sir Thomas Longley Road, Medway City Estate, Rochester, ME2 4DU, England](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=Medway%20House%20Sir%20Thomas%20Longley%20Road%2C%20Medway%20City%20Estate%2C%20Rochester%2C%20ME2%204DU%2C%20England)

Email address: Not found

Phone number: [+44 800 525450](tel:+44%20800%20525450)

Contact page: [kentonline.co.uk/contact-us/](https://kentonline.co.uk/contact-us/)

Website: [kentonline.co.uk](https://kentonline.co.uk/?utm_source=truthsignal.com&utm_medium=referral)

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 found We looked on Trustpilot, SmartCustomer, G2, Capterra, Reviews.io, Feefo, Trustindex, ComplaintsBoard and ConsumerAffairs

Customer satisfaction Insufficient evidence · No reviews found

App experience Insufficient 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

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

### Not found

- Social presence information was not found from our checks.
- Reviews information was not found from our checks.
- 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

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

- Rochester 2
- Gravesend 1

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.”

Sources [OpenStreetMap](https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) [Its homepage](https://www.kentonline.co.uk/) [Its about page](https://www.kentonline.co.uk/kent/news/kent-pc-sacked-after-lying-about-arrest-of-violent-man-in-fr-347212/)

### 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](https://truthsignal.com/guides/how-to-know-if-a-shopping-site-is-legit).

### Who they are

Company details An 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 accounts The most detailed kind a company files.

Secured loans (charges): 0 No secured loans outstanding at Companies House.

From Wikipedia

Industry: Media

Founded: 1890

Sources [Companies House](https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/08528676) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KM_Media_Group) [ICO register entry](https://ico.org.uk/ESDWebPages/Entry/ZB464141)

Domain registration Its 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

Sources [ICANN Lookup](https://lookup.icann.org/en/lookup?name=kentonline.co.uk)

Website details We read 4 of its pages: contact, about, terms and privacy

HTTPS enabled: Yes

Contact phone number found: [+44 800 525450](tel:+44800525450)

Contact page found: Yes

Sources agreeing on postcode: 2

Hosting company: KM Group

What its pages say

Ways to contact them: [+44 800 525450](tel:+44800525450)

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.”

Sources [Homepage](https://kentonline.co.uk/) [Contact page](https://kentonline.co.uk/contact-us/) [About page](https://kentonline.co.uk/contact-us/about-us/) [Kent pc sacked after lying about arrest of violent man in fr 347212](https://kentonline.co.uk/kent/news/kent-pc-sacked-after-lying-about-arrest-of-violent-man-in-fr-347212/) [Terms page](https://kentonline.co.uk/terms/) [Privacy page](https://kentonline.co.uk/terms/privacy-policy/)

Search engines and AI Lets 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 default Googlebot

Bing: Allowed by default Bingbot

AI training

All blocked

OpenAI: Blocked by its robots.txt GPTBot

Anthropic: Blocked by its robots.txt ClaudeBot

Google AI: Blocked by its robots.txt Google-Extended

Apple AI: Blocked by its robots.txt Applebot-Extended

Common Crawl: Blocked by its robots.txt CCBot

Meta: Blocked by its robots.txt meta-externalagent

ByteDance (TikTok): Blocked by its robots.txt Bytespider

AI answers

4 of 5 blocked

ChatGPT search: Blocked by its robots.txt OAI-SearchBot

ChatGPT: Blocked by its robots.txt ChatGPT-User

Claude search: Blocked by its robots.txt Claude-SearchBot

Claude: Allowed by default Claude-User

Perplexity: Blocked by its robots.txt PerplexityBot

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: /

Sources [robots.txt](https://kentonline.co.uk/robots.txt)

### Reputation and track record

Customer reviews, accreditations and complaints No customer reviews found

- We found no page for it on any review website, such as Trustpilot

Visitor traffic Real 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.

- Over 50%
- 5 to 50%
- 1 to 5%
- 0.2 to 1%
- Under 0.2%
- None seen

- 1 United States 24.6%
- 2 Singapore 18.6%
- 3 United Kingdom 14.4%
- 4 Brazil 5.9%
- 5 Hong Kong 4.2%
- 6 Finland 3.4%
- 7 Germany 2.5%
- 8 France 2.5%
- 9 Indonesia 2.5%
- 10 India 2.5%

Top 10 of 28 countries.

Sources [Chrome UX Report](https://developer.chrome.com/docs/crux) [Cloudflare Radar](https://radar.cloudflare.com/domains/domain/kentonline.co.uk)

Web history and authority The Internet Archive first saved a copy of its website 26 years ago

Website archive history: 26 years

Sources [First archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20000303/kentonline.co.uk)

Social presence We 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 says We 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.”

Source [Its privacy policy](https://www.kentonline.co.uk/terms/privacy-policy/)

Tracking tools on its homepage Google 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.

Source [Its homepage](https://kentonline.co.uk/)

### Safety

Malware and phishing No malware or phishing warnings found for its website This 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

Sources [Google Web Risk](https://docs.cloud.google.com/web-risk/docs/advisory)

Data breach history No known data breach involving the company

Known data breaches found: 0

Sources [Have I Been Pwned](https://haveibeenpwned.com/)

Domain and email security Its 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

Sources [Its DNS records](https://dns.google/query?name=kentonline.co.uk&rr_type=TXT)

### 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 record Not 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

Source kentonline.co.uk's DNS records

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Email at its own domain Not 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

Source Truth Signal's own records

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Lets our checker read it Not 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

Source kentonline.co.uk/robots.txt

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Points added to its truth score 0 of 5

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## Past reports

The report as it read each month, newest first:

- 2026-11: truth score 70, High: https://truthsignal.com/business/kentonline.co.uk/report/2026-11.md

## Cite

Truth Signal, Km Media Group Limited: truth score 70 out of 100, legitimacy confidence High, assessed 2026-11-12, https://truthsignal.com/business/kentonline.co.uk. Licence Truth Signal terms: free to read and quote with a link back; bulk copying, data sets, resale, white-label and model training need the paid API plan (https://truthsignal.com/terms). The same report as JSON: https://truthsignal.com/business/kentonline.co.uk.json
