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# thesudburystar.com

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## Website

thesudburystar.com

Sudbury News, Stories and Headlines | Sudbury Star The Sudbury Star keeps you up-to-date on what's happening in the world with the latest breaking news, stories, and headlines in Sudbury.

Checked on 13 Nov 2026, 00:38 Unclaimed

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## Truth score

Truth score 74 out of 100, High truth signals. Customer satisfaction: insufficient evidence

74 / 100

High truth signals

## Business details

Category: News and magazines

Founded: 1909

Sells: Subscription or membership

Kind of seller: Information or media

Licensed trade: No licence normally needed

Domain age: 29 years

Address: [365 Bloor Street East Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4W 3L4](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=365%20Bloor%20Street%20East%20Toronto%2C%20Ontario%2C%20Canada%20M4W%203L4)

Email address: Not found

Phone number: [+1 877-219-6444](tel:+1%20877-219-6444)

Contact page: [thesudburystar.com/contact/](https://thesudburystar.com/contact/)

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

Social media: Not found

## 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 thesudburystar.com legit and trustworthy? Truth score 74 out of 100, high truth signals: 6 public checks clear, 1 not found, 3 for information. Legitimacy confidence: high. App experience: insufficient evidence. Customer satisfaction: insufficient evidence.

We read its contact page. Its website address was registered 29 years ago, and is locked against transfer to someone else. No malware or phishing warnings found for its website. We could not find social media profiles, a customer rating or an email address.

### Positives

- We read its contact page.
- Its website address was registered 29 years ago.
- 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

The Sudbury Star keeps you up-to-date on what's happening in the world with the latest breaking news, stories, and headlines in Sudbury.

— Sudbury Star, in their own words

Sources [Its homepage](https://www.thesudburystar.com/)

### How to check if thesudburystar.com is legit

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

### Who they are

Company details Based in the US; serves Canada; founded in 1909 (Wikipedia)

Country

Where the company is based: US

Why we believe that: its phone number starts +1

Which countries the company serves: Canada

Why we believe that: C$ prices on its homepage

From Wikipedia

Founded: 1909

Sources [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sudbury_Star)

Domain registration Its 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

Sources [ICANN Lookup](https://lookup.icann.org/en/lookup?name=thesudburystar.com)

Website details Found: https enabled, contact email or contact form available, contact phone number found, terms page linked and 3 more

HTTPS enabled: Yes

Contact phone number found: [+1 877-219-6444](tel:+18772196444)

Contact page found: Yes

Hosting company: Automattic, Inc

What its pages say

Phone support: [+1 877-219-6444](tel:+18772196444)

Sources [Homepage](https://thesudburystar.com/) [Contact page](https://thesudburystar.com/contact/)

Search engines and AI Lets in search engines; blocks AI training and 1 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

1 of 5 blocked

ChatGPT search: Allowed by default OAI-SearchBot

ChatGPT: Allowed by default ChatGPT-User

Claude search: Allowed by default Claude-SearchBot

Claude: Allowed by default Claude-User

Perplexity: Blocked by its robots.txt PerplexityBot

User-agent: GPTBot Disallow: / User-agent: CCBot Disallow: / User-agent: ClaudeBot Disallow: / User-agent: Google-Extended Disallow: / User-agent: PerplexityBot Disallow: / User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent Disallow: / User-agent: Bytespider Disallow: / User-agent: Applebot-Extended Disallow: /

Sources [robots.txt](https://thesudburystar.com/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

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

Where its visitors are

Share of people looking up thesudburystar.com, 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 28.6%
- 2 Canada 17.9%
- 3 Singapore 17.9%
- 4 Brazil 14.3%
- 5 France 10.7%
- 6 United Arab Emirates 3.6%
- 7 Argentina 3.6%
- 8 Germany 3.6%

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

Web history and authority The Internet Archive first saved a copy of its website 27 years ago

Website archive history: 27 years

Sources [First archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/19990117/thesudburystar.com)

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

Its privacy policy is on another website postmedia.com

Its homepage links its privacy policy on another website, so we did not read it.

Source [Its privacy policy](https://www.postmedia.com/privacy-statement/)

Tracking tools on its homepage Google Tag Manager and Google Ads

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

Google Tag Manager: Loads other tracking tools, which may not be listed here.

Google Ads: Tracks what you do to show you Google adverts.

Source [Its homepage](https://thesudburystar.com/)

### 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 only partly protected: mail forged in its name is reported but not blocked

- Its email identifies its real senders, but mail forged in its name is not blocked

Email

MX records: Yes

SPF record: Yes

DMARC record: Yes

DMARC policy: none

Certificate

Security certificate browsers warn about: No

Certificate issuer: Let's Encrypt

Certificate type: DV

Certificate expires: 1 Jan 2027

Hosting

Nameservers: ns-cloud-b1.googledomains.com
ns-cloud-b2.googledomains.com
ns-cloud-b3.googledomains.com
ns-cloud-b4.googledomains.com

Address: 192.0.66.20

Sources [Its DNS records](https://dns.google/query?name=thesudburystar.com&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 thesudburystar.com'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 thesudburystar.com/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 74, High: https://truthsignal.com/business/thesudburystar.com/report/2026-11.md

## Cite

Truth Signal, Sudbury Star: truth score 74 out of 100, legitimacy confidence High, assessed 2026-11-13, https://truthsignal.com/business/thesudburystar.com. 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/thesudburystar.com.json
