Verdict
consejodeestado.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 site for the Consejo de Estado (Colombia) offering information about the institution, online services (ventanilla virtual, SAMAI), access to jurisprudence, publications, events, and contact details including physical address and phone. |
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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 | 19 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2010401 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by Go Daddy Secure Certificate Authority - 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).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2010.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
This website presents itself as the online portal of Colombia’s Consejo de Estado, a governmental judicial institution providing institutional information, access to jurisprudence and publications, online public services, hearings, announcements, and citizen contact channels rather than a commercial offering.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed. The site’s governmental judicial purpose is consistent across its institutional navigation, service descriptions, jurisprudence resources, and contact functions; the assessed domain also uses the sovereign `gov.co` namespace. External reputation checks found no malicious or suspicious detections, no phishing or impersonation indicators, and no matching broker-related warning. The operator’s real-world identity remains independently unverified, so the evidence supports an apparently legitimate established website rather than proving the legal operator’s identity. No sensitive login form, hidden form, wallet activity, cloaking, or suspicious script behavior was observed.
- The homepage identifies the Consejo de Estado and links to “Nuestra Institución,” institutional functions, history, structure within the State, judicial sections, and named public services.
- The homepage provides government-jurisdiction functions including Ventanilla Virtual, SAMAI, jurisprudence search, hearings, notifications, PQRSDF, publications, and contact channels.
- The domain was registered on 2007-08-27 and is 18.97 years old; its historical record contains 401 archive snapshots spanning 2010-07-11 to 2026-08-11 across 17 tracked years.
- External checks recorded 0 malicious and 0 suspicious detections, with no blacklist, phishing, or brand-impersonation finding.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site’s content is consistent with a public judicial institution, not a financial, brokerage, or consumer-commerce business requiring a commercial operating licence. Its institutional pages identify the organisation’s mission, functions, internal structure, tribunals and judicial sections, while the contact and transparency areas provide public-facing accountability channels. The available evidence does not independently verify the real-world operator, and the site’s disclosure state is therefore best treated as apparent institutional identification rather than conclusive legal-entity verification. A mid-level page-authority signal is contextual only and does not alter the positive assessment. The registrar is www.registrocolombia.co.
- The “¿Quiénes Somos?” and “Nuestra Institución” pages present the institution’s mission, vision, functions, regulations, history, organisational structure, and relationship to the State.
- The “Transparencia,” “Directorio,” and “Contáctenos” areas provide institutional information and citizen contact routes, including a physical address and telephone details.
- The site’s hosting telemetry identifies AS8075, Microsoft Corporation, US; its TLS certificate is DV, issued by Go Daddy Secure Certificate Authority - G2, valid to 2026-09-16.
- The domain uses the `gov.co` sovereign namespace and was registered through www.registrocolombia.co.
What to Verify Next
Before credential submission or any action involving sensitive personal information, an organisation should independently confirm that the institutional domain and published contact details correspond to Colombia’s official judicial-government directory or another authoritative offline channel. Any service-specific data request should be checked against the relevant institutional privacy, transparency, and procedural information before submission. Ordinary payment-protection checks are not materially applicable to the stated public-service model, which has no indicated commercial monetisation.
- The “Canales de Atención” and “Directorio” pages provide the contact details suitable for independent confirmation through an offline route.
- The “Transparencia” and “Normativa” areas identify the pages most relevant to checking procedural and disclosure information before submitting sensitive information.
- The absence of a sensitive form during the observed homepage interaction supports limiting verification to the specific service page involved.
Summary Verdict
Available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate governmental judicial website and supports a high-trust, low-risk posture. No scam, phishing, impersonation, or other contradictory signal was identified, while independent verification of the real-world operator remains incomplete.
Infrastructure Integrity
The website is protected by a CDN/WAF arrangement, with observed edge infrastructure associated with AS8075 and Microsoft Corporation in the United States; the observed edge IP was 20.119.0.39. The origin server was not observable in this analysis. This architecture is a mitigating exposure-control measure, not proof of legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
The site is suitable for ordinary public-information use, with independent confirmation of institutional identity and service-specific procedures appropriate before credential or sensitive-data interactions.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-12 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 consejodeestado.gov.co.
- The request stayed on consejodeestado.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 cdmon.net, across 3 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2026-08-28. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2010-07-11. Clear
- 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 | 190.217.24.60 |
| Name servers | NS2.CDMON.NET, NS1.CDMON.NET, NS3.CDMON.NET |
| SSL issuer | Go Daddy Secure Certificate Authority - G2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-09-16 |
| Domain age | 18.97 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2026-08-28 |
| Archive first seen | 2010-07-11 |
| Archive snapshots | 401 |
| 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 consejodeestado.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.