Verdict
aib.ie appears legitimate.
Our checks found nothing pointing to fraud. Ordinary care still applies when you pay or sign in.
| What this site appears to be | Official-looking personal banking landing page for Allied Irish Banks (AIB). Content covers products (mortgages, savings, loans), help and security guidance, contact and legal/regulatory disclosures. No evident credential-harvesting forms in provided content. |
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Evidence status and limitations
Evidence completeness: UNKNOWN
- The real-world operator identity was not independently verified.
- Module-level completeness metadata is unavailable for this legacy report.
At a glance
The checks that decide most of this verdict.
| Malware engines | None flagged itVirusTotal | Clear |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 25 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Never archivedNo public history of this site | Watch |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by DigiCert EV RSA CA G2 | Noted |
The page as captured
No screenshot is retained for this report.
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Domain age: more than 10 years (registration continuity).
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
- The operator behind the site could not be independently connected to a real-world brand or person.
Full analysis
Overview
This is the AIB personal and business banking website, presenting current accounts, mortgages, savings, loans, insurance, account support, security guidance, branch information, and online banking services for customers of Allied Irish Banks.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No phishing, impersonation, blacklist, or conflicting legal-identity contradictions were observed. The homepage is coherent with a mature banking operation, and the supplied content contains no credential-harvesting form, hidden sensitive form, wallet interaction, or other evident abuse mechanism. Some browser activity involved external requests and posts outside expected destinations, but it was not accompanied by cloaking, hidden forms, clipboard manipulation, wallet-drainer behavior, or a destination mismatch; this is better interpreted as site-integration activity than as an identity contradiction.
- The homepage is titled “AIB Personal Banking – Allied Irish Banks” and provides banking, mortgage, savings, lending, insurance, security, and contact content without a detected login form or sensitive external form.
- External reputation checks recorded 0 malicious detections and 0 suspicious detections; no phishing or impersonation finding was recorded.
- The domain was registered 2001-06-11 and is 25.19 years old, supporting long-term registration continuity.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site presents legal, regulatory, privacy, complaint, contact, and branch-related information, and its business model is consistent with retail and business banking funded through deposits, interest margins, fees, and financial products. The available evidence does not independently verify the real-world operator identity or a specific authorization. A third-party broker listing associates the exact domain with Allied Irish Banks, p.l.c. but reports “No Regulation”; this is a reputational-context signal rather than a legal or regulatory determination and does not create an identity contradiction. The absence of independently confirmed licensing detail should therefore remain a verification point rather than an allegation of illegitimacy.
- The domain registrar is CSC Corporate Domains, Inc.; registration expires 2027-06-30T09:12:19Z.
- The site is served from AS20940, identified as AKAMAI-ASN1 - Akamai International B.V., NL.
- The transport certificate is EV validation, issued by DigiCert EV RSA CA G2 for Allied Irish Banks, p.l.c., valid to 2026-10-23T23:59:59+00:00.
- The site’s legal and contact content includes complaint, privacy, security, and branch-information pathways.
What to Verify Next
Before credential or payment interactions, an independent check should confirm that the institution named on the site corresponds to the relevant official financial-services register and that the applicable account, complaint, and payment-protection terms are current. Contact details should be reached through an independently obtained official channel rather than relying solely on information presented during the same browsing session. For material transactions, the payment method should provide an appropriate dispute or recovery mechanism.
- The homepage provides account-opening, login, payment-support, complaint, and branch-navigation pathways that can be cross-checked through an independent official source.
- The site presents mortgage, deposit, lending, insurance, and account-support information, making product-specific terms and protections relevant to pre-transaction review.
- Operator identity remains independently unverified in the available assessment, supporting confirmation through an external authoritative channel.
Summary Verdict
Available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate website and supports a high-trust, low-risk posture. The operator’s real-world identity is not independently verified, so the conclusion reflects strong evidence consistency rather than proof of identity.
Infrastructure Integrity
The website is protected by Akamai CDN/WAF infrastructure, with observed delivery through Akamai edge servers and a potential origin candidate. This architecture is a mitigating control that reduces direct exposure of the service infrastructure, but it is not by itself proof of legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Normal browsing is proportionate to the assessed posture; credential or payment use should follow the ordinary independent identity, terms, and payment-protection checks expected for a financial-service interaction.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-13 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
No rule findings contributed to this verdict.
Identity verification
| Status | UNVERIFIED |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 30/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 50% |
- No on-site identity signals detected
Identity verification measures whether the site can be independently connected to a real-world brand or person. It is separate from the classification confidence.
What TrustSniffer observed
First-party facts recorded during the assessment of aib.ie.
- The request stayed on aib.ie. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under CSC Corporate Domains, Inc. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by cscdns.net, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-06-30. Noted
- It is hosted on AKAMAI-ASN1, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | CSC Corporate Domains, Inc |
|---|---|
| Hosting | AKAMAI-ASN1 - Akamai International B.V., NL |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 2a02:26f0:e80:7f::17d8:8693 |
| Name servers | udns1.cscdns.net, udns2.cscdns.uk |
| SSL issuer | DigiCert EV RSA CA G2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-23 |
| Domain age | 25.19 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-06-30 |
| Archive first seen | Not available |
| Archive snapshots | 0 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 0 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about aib.ie at assessment time. It is a starting point for your own judgement, not a guarantee: a high score means the signals were consistent with a legitimately operated site, a low or critical score means several risk patterns were present.
TrustSniffer assesses a website from the evidence it can collect at a point in time: domain registration and age, hosting and certificate, the content the site served, and third-party reputation feeds. A score is a summary of that evidence, not a guarantee and not a legal finding. There is no human rating and no user review in it. A site can change after it is assessed.