Verdict
chateauversailles.fr 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 Château de Versailles website offering visitor information, tickets, events, exhibitions, online shop and options to donate or become a member. Site content is informational and service-oriented. |
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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 | 29 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Never archivedNo public history of this site | Watch |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA OV E36 | 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.
Full analysis
Overview
The website presents itself as the official Château de Versailles online service, providing visitor information, ticketing, exhibitions, events, collections, an online shop, donations, and membership options for a public cultural institution.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No blacklist, phishing, malware, or brand-impersonation contradictions were observed. The site’s content is coherent with a museum and tourist-information service: it describes tickets, visitor preparation, exhibitions, events, collections, accessibility, donations, and merchandise rather than investment or financial-return products. Its published social links and established domain history support an evidence-consistent view of an apparently legitimate site, although the real-world operator identity is not independently verified. The homepage also contains no login form, hidden form, wallet interaction, or suspicious external submission behavior.
- Homepage content identifies the service as “Château de Versailles | Site officiel” and provides museum, visitor, ticketing, event, collection, and support sections.
- Domain registered 1998-01-25T23:00:00Z, with an age of 28.56 years; registrar: ECRITEL.
- External reputation checks recorded 0 malicious findings, 0 suspicious findings, and no blacklist or search-engine malware flag.
- Homepage analysis found no brand-impersonation indicators, hidden forms, password submissions to external destinations, or wallet-drainer activity.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The apparent business model is cultural and service-oriented rather than financial: revenue-generating activities presented on the site include admission, guided visits and subscriptions, shop sales, donations or mécénat, events, and licensing. No financial-services license is claimed, and no license or registration number is presented as part of the available site content; this is a disclosure point to confirm only if a regulated transaction or contractual engagement is contemplated. The site’s public-institution presentation, clean reputation, long registration continuity, and valid organization-validated transport certificate are consistent with an established website, but they do not independently prove the legal operator’s identity. No matching third-party broker warning was identified.
- Homepage navigation includes “Billets & tarifs,” “Expositions,” “Événements,” “Boutique en ligne,” “Mécénat,” and visitor-information content.
- Served from AS15401, EOLAS-AS - Orange Business Services SA, FR.
- TLS certificate issued by Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA OV E36 with OV validation for ETS PUBLIC DU CHATEAU DU MUSEE ET DU DOM NAT DE VERSAILLES, valid to 2026-12-26T23:59:59+00:00.
- The site’s public content does not state a financial-services license or license number.
What to Verify Next
Before credential or payment interactions, an institution should independently confirm the merchant or contracting entity through an official offline or registry channel, review the applicable ticket, shop, cancellation, refund, and delivery terms, and ensure that payment protections are available for the intended transaction. Any request that departs from the site’s ordinary visitor, ticketing, donation, membership, or shop workflows should be validated through an independently sourced contact route.
- The homepage provides distinct pathways for ticketing, online shopping, donations or mécénat, membership-related services, and visitor information.
- The site exposes contact and practical-information sections that can be compared with independently obtained institutional contact details.
- The available page analysis identified three forms limited to newsletter signup, search, and cookie consent, with no sensitive credential form.
Summary Verdict
Available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate website and supports a high-trust, low-risk posture. No scam, phishing, impersonation, or other contradictory signal was observed, while operator identity remains likely rather than independently verified.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves to a single apparent origin address hosted by EOLAS-AS - Orange Business Services SA in France, with no CDN or WAF identified in the supplied infrastructure data. This comparatively direct hosting arrangement is not evidence of legitimacy, but the resolved and identifiable infrastructure provides a clear technical hosting posture.
Closing Assessment
Normal browsing and ordinary site functions appear proportionate to the assessed posture; before submitting credentials or payment details, the prospective user should complete the independent merchant-identity, transaction-terms, and payment-protection checks described above.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-11 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 | LIKELY |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 79/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 78% |
- Trusted social count=3
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 chateauversailles.fr.
- The request stayed on chateauversailles.fr. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under ECRITEL. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by ecritel.com, across 4 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-07-16. Noted
- It is hosted on EOLAS-AS, from a server in FR. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | ECRITEL |
|---|---|
| Hosting | EOLAS-AS - Orange Business Services SA, FR |
| Country | FR |
| Server IP | 178.237.110.99 |
| Name servers | ns-a.ecritel.com, ns-a.ecritel.fr, ns-b.ecritel.com, ns-b.ecritel.fr |
| SSL issuer | Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA OV E36 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-12-26 |
| Domain age | 28.56 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-07-16 |
| 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 chateauversailles.fr 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.