Verdict
dataprotection.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 Data Protection Commission (Ireland) homepage offering guidance on GDPR, resources for organisations and DPOs, news updates, contact details and access to publications. |
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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 | Archived since 20035000 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA DV 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).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2003.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
The website is the homepage of Ireland’s Data Protection Commission, presenting GDPR guidance, data-protection resources, organisational and Data Protection Officer materials, regulatory decisions, news, FAQs, and contact services for individuals and organisations.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed. The homepage presents a coherent public-authority purpose, with no detected phishing, impersonation, malicious-content, or suspicious interaction indicators. The site’s long registration continuity, substantial historical presence, established traffic footprint, and clean external reputation converge with the page content to support an apparently legitimate, established website. The operator’s real-world identity is not independently verified by the supplied evidence, so the conclusion is evidence-consistent rather than proof of identity.
- The homepage is categorised as an informational government/public-service site, with no red flags or brand-impersonation indicators.
- Registered 2002-01-22 (~24.57 years old).
- 5,000 archive snapshots spanning 2003-03-20 to 2023-01-27 (21 years tracked), with no suspicious repurposing detected.
- Traffic rank 31542, within the top 1,000,000 globally; external checks recorded 0 malicious and 0 suspicious detections.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The homepage states that the Data Protection Commission is Ireland’s independent supervisory authority for the GDPR and describes related responsibilities under the Irish ePrivacy Regulations and the Law Enforcement Directive. No commercial licence number is presented in the supplied page evidence; for an informational public-authority website, the relevant assurance question is institutional identity and remit rather than a financial-services licence. The available evidence supports the site’s stated public-service role, while independent operator verification remains outstanding. No contextual broker-reputation match was identified.
- The homepage identifies the Data Protection Commission and describes its stated statutory remit, including GDPR supervision.
- Served from AS51677 (HETG-AS - Hibernia Services Limited, IE).
- TLS certificate issued by Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA DV R36 (DV), valid to 2026-12-26 23:59:59 UTC.
What to Verify Next
Before any interaction that involves submitting credentials, personal information, or payment details, independently confirm the institution’s identity and official contact routes through an Irish government source or another offline-validated channel. Where a process concerns regulated data-protection activity, confirm that the relevant request or submission is being made through the Commission’s published official procedure.
- The homepage provides “Who We Are,” “Contact us,” FAQs, and dedicated resources for individuals and organisations.
- No login form or sensitive data-collection form was observed on the homepage.
- The site is presented as a public authority providing guidance, news, publications, and contact services rather than as a commercial transaction platform.
Summary Verdict
Available evidence supports an established, apparently legitimate website with a high-trust, low-risk posture. The site-level conclusion is strong, but the real-world operator linkage remains independently unverified.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves to one likely origin address hosted by HETG-AS - Hibernia Services Limited in Ireland, with no CDN or WAF vendor detected. The identified and stable hosting posture is a modest mitigating technical signal, but infrastructure alone does not establish institutional legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Routine informational browsing is proportionate to the assessed posture; ordinary independent identity, terms, and payment-protection checks should precede any sensitive credential or payment interaction.
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 | 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 dataprotection.ie.
- The request stayed on dataprotection.ie. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Fusio Limited. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by awsdns-48.org, across 4 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-03-31. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2003-03-20. Clear
- It is hosted on HETG-AS, from a server in IE. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Fusio Limited |
|---|---|
| Hosting | HETG-AS - Hibernia Services Limited, IE |
| Country | IE |
| Server IP | 146.0.55.158 |
| Name servers | ns-1413.awsdns-48.org, ns-1742.awsdns-25.co.uk, ns-336.awsdns-42.com, ns-580.awsdns-08.net |
| SSL issuer | Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA DV R36 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-12-26 |
| Domain age | 24.57 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-03-31 |
| Archive first seen | 2003-03-20 |
| Archive snapshots | 5000 |
| 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 dataprotection.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.