Verdict
bogota.gov.co 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 website of the Mayor's Office of Bogotá providing information about city services, news, cultural events, government structure, citizen participation tools, and contact channels. |
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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 | 27 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Never archivedNo public history of this site | Watch |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA OV R36 | 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 a municipal public-service portal for Bogotá, presenting city information, administrative structure, public programs, local services, cultural and tourism content, citizen participation resources, and official contact channels rather than investment, trading, or commercial offerings.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed. The homepage content is consistent with a municipal government function: it covers city services, departmental programs, localities, public administration, laws, events, and citizen engagement, without soliciting investments or presenting suspicious financial products. The page analysis also found no login form, sensitive form, hidden form, untrusted destination, brand-impersonation indicator, or other phishing signal. External reputation checks were clean, and the site has an established global traffic footprint and strong page authority, providing convergent support for an apparently legitimate website.
- Homepage: identifies Bogotá city services, administrative departments, localities, public programs, cultural activities, and citizen information.
- Homepage behavior: no login form, sensitive form, hidden form, or untrusted form destination was detected.
- External reputation: zero malicious detections, zero suspicious detections, and no confirmed blacklist or phishing result were recorded.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site presents itself as the Mayor’s Office of Bogotá and uses the sovereign government suffix “gov.co,” which is consistent with a public-sector portal. The available evidence supports an established and apparently legitimate municipal website, but the real-world operator identity is not independently verified. No financial licence claim or licence number is presented, although the portal’s stated purpose is public information and administration rather than a regulated financial service. Registration through www.registrocolombia.co and organization-validated transport encryption provide additional infrastructure and provenance support; these signals do not independently prove the operator’s legal identity.
- Domain registration: created 18 November 1999; age 26.75 years; registrar www.registrocolombia.co; expiration 9 February 2027.
- Transport encryption: OV TLS certificate issued by Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA OV R36 to “Secretaria General de Alcaldia Mayor de Bogota,” valid through 3 December 2026.
- Site classification: the homepage is categorized as Government / Municipal and Government / Public Service, with a mature public-information business model.
- Sovereign domain context: the site uses the matched suffix gov.co and is recorded as within the government category.
What to Verify Next
For any credential or payment interaction initiated from the site, independently confirm that the relevant page and contact channel are linked from an authoritative Bogotá government source. Where a specific administrative service involves a payment, confirm the responsible public entity, applicable terms, fee authority, and payment-protection arrangements through an independently obtained official channel rather than relying solely on an on-site link.
- Homepage: provides administrative, citizen-participation, and contact pathways that can be cross-checked through an independently sourced government channel.
- Service context: the stated business model is public administration and information delivery, so any request for credentials, fees, or payment should be assessed against the specific government service being accessed.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is high trust and low risk, with the available evidence consistent with an established, apparently legitimate municipal website. The conclusion supports normal informational use, while the operator-identity assessment remains qualified rather than independently proven.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is protected by CDN/WAF infrastructure, and all observed addresses were edge addresses rather than identified origin candidates. Hosting was observed on Microsoft Corporation infrastructure in the United States, with the resolved network posture providing a meaningful mitigation against direct origin exposure; protective infrastructure is a security control, not proof of legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Routine informational use is proportionate, while any credential or payment interaction should follow ordinary independent identity, service-term, and payment-protection checks.
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 | 55/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 60% |
- Identity verified on page
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 bogota.gov.co.
- The request stayed on bogota.gov.co. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under www.registrocolombia.co. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by azure-dns.com, across 4 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-02-09. Noted
- It is hosted on MICROSOFT-CORP-MSN-AS-BLOCK, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | www.registrocolombia.co |
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| Hosting | MICROSOFT-CORP-MSN-AS-BLOCK - Microsoft Corporation, US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 2603:1061:14:22::1 |
| Name servers | NS1-06.AZURE-DNS.COM, NS2-06.AZURE-DNS.NET, NS4-06.AZURE-DNS.INFO, NS3-06.AZURE-DNS.ORG |
| SSL issuer | Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA OV R36 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-12-03 |
| Domain age | 26.75 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-02-09 |
| 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 bogota.gov.co 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.