Verdict
bteup.ac.in 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 Board of Technical Education (Uttar Pradesh) page containing navigation for syllabus, exam schedules, results, affiliations, RTI and login entry points for students, examiners and institutes. Primarily informational and administrative content in Hindi/English. |
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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 | 12 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2014151 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by GlobalSign GCC R3 DV TLS CA 2020 | 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).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2014.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
The website is a public-service portal presented as the Board of Technical Education, Uttar Pradesh, Lucknow, providing visitors with educational-board notices, syllabi, examination information, results, affiliation resources, RTI materials, and access points for students, examiners, and institutes.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No scam, phishing, impersonation, or other contradictory identity signals were observed. The site's content is internally consistent with a public educational-board function: it provides administrative information rather than commercial offers, investment products, or monetization mechanisms. Available reputation checks were clean, and the site's established online presence supports an evidence-consistent assessment that it is an apparently legitimate, low-risk public-service website; however, the real-world operator identity remains independently unverified.
- The homepage identifies the service as the Board of Technical Education, Uttar Pradesh, Lucknow and presents syllabus, examination, result, affiliation, RTI, and administrative resources.
- Domain registration records show creation on 2014-08-01 and an age of 12.04 years, with expiry on 2028-08-01.
- Web-archive records contain 151 snapshots spanning 2014-11-25 to 2023-08-04, covering 10 tracked years.
- External reputation checks recorded 0 malicious detections, 0 suspicious detections, 0 abuse reports, and a traffic rank of 13364.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site's About Us, Function & Duties, Overview & History, Acts, Regulation, and RTI materials provide institutional and administrative context. The reviewed material does not present a licensing claim or license number, which is a transparency item to clarify if a particular service requires formal authorization; it is not, by itself, evidence of a scam. The site is not identified in the supplied evidence as a third-party regulated financial entity, and the available evidence supports an apparently established institutional website rather than a commercial financial service. Its apparent legitimacy is therefore supported by the site's content and technical continuity, but the operator's real-world identity is not independently proven.
- The institutional pages include Acts, regulations, functions and duties, historical information, RTI provisions, and appellate-authority references.
- The site's hosting infrastructure is AS18229, operated by CTRLS-AS-IN - CtrlS, IN.
- The site's TLS certificate uses GlobalSign GCC R3 DV TLS CA 2020 validation, with DV validation and validity through 2026-12-13.
- The matched third-party broker-reputation result was false, providing no adverse broker-related signal.
What to Verify Next
Before credential submission or any account-related interaction, the institution's identity should be confirmed through an independently sourced Uttar Pradesh government or education-sector channel rather than relying solely on the website's own presentation. The official status of any specific service, notice, examination result, or institute-related transaction should also be checked against independently obtained board communications, and ordinary account-security, payment-protection, and dispute procedures should be confirmed where applicable.
- The portal exposes Student Login, Examiner Login, and Institute Login entry points, making independent confirmation of the intended service and domain important before authentication.
- The site provides public administrative and RTI materials that can be compared with independently sourced institutional records.
- No commercial monetization or payment-oriented business model was identified in the reviewed page content.
Summary Verdict
Available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate public-service website and supports a high-trust, low-risk posture. No scam or impersonation contradiction was observed. The classification is strong, but the connection to a verified real-world operator remains unconfirmed.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves directly to one identified origin address, 45.114.246.16, on CtrlS infrastructure in India; no CDN or WAF was detected. This is a straightforward hosting configuration and does not, on the supplied evidence, indicate malicious infrastructure or deliberate concealment.
- Hosted on AS18229 (CtrlS, India), resolving to 45.114.246.16.
- One unique IP was identified, with 0 edge IPs and 1 likely origin IP.
- No CDN vendors or trusted CDN service were detected.
Closing Assessment
Normal informational use is proportionate to the evidence; credential or payment interactions should follow the ordinary independent identity, service-authority, and account-protection checks appropriate to the transaction.
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 bteup.ac.in.
- The request stayed on bteup.ac.in. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under ERNET India. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by ac.in, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2028-08-01. Clear
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2014-11-25. Clear
- It is hosted on CTRLS-AS-IN, from a server in IN. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | ERNET India |
|---|---|
| Hosting | CTRLS-AS-IN - CtrlS, IN |
| Country | IN |
| Server IP | 45.114.246.16 |
| Name servers | ns1.bteup.ac.in, ns2.bteup.ac.in |
| SSL issuer | GlobalSign GCC R3 DV TLS CA 2020 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-12-13 |
| Domain age | 12.04 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2028-08-01 |
| Archive first seen | 2014-11-25 |
| Archive snapshots | 151 |
| 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 bteup.ac.in 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.