Verdict
eurecom.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 | EURECOM's official homepage presents an engineering school and digital science research center in Sophia Antipolis, France, including degree programs, admissions information, research departments, partnerships, news, careers, and institutional contact details. |
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Evidence status and limitations
Evidence completeness: UNKNOWN
- 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 | 30 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 19971708 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by GEANT TLS ECC 1 | 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 1997.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
EURECOM is an engineering school and digital science research center in Sophia Antipolis, France, presenting degree programs, admissions, research departments, partnerships, student services, careers, news, and institutional contact information for an academic and research-driven organization.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions, impersonation indicators, phishing behavior, or confirmed malicious reputation findings were observed. The homepage presents a coherent institutional identity across academic programs, research activity, partnerships, admissions, and contact information, with no login form, sensitive form, wallet interaction, hidden form, or suspicious redirect behavior. The site's long-running continuity is consistent with the same education and research purpose rather than a repurposed or deceptive operation.
- The homepage identifies EURECOM as an engineering and digital-science institution with admissions, research, partnerships, careers, and student-life content.
- The site's hosting domain was registered in 1996 and is approximately 30.42 years old.
- Historical records contain 1,708 snapshots spanning 1997–2026, with 30 years tracked.
- External reputation checks recorded zero malicious and zero suspicious detections, with no blacklist or phishing finding.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The supplied pages describe an academic and research institution funded through education, tuition and fees, research, partnerships, and institutional support; they do not present a financial-services licensing claim. That is a limited disclosure point for formal due diligence, not an indication of deception, because the site's stated business model is educational and institutional rather than financial. The institutional identity is supported by established registration and recognized academic hosting infrastructure.
- The domain registrar is GIP RENATER; the recorded creation date is 1996-03-07 and the expiration date is 2027-03-07.
- The site is served from AS2200, FR-RENATER - Renater, FR.
- TLS is issued by GEANT TLS ECC 1 with OV validation for subject organization Eurecom, valid to 2026-12-16 14:11:20 UTC.
- The supplied legal and institutional navigation includes presentation, history, quality, equality, accessibility, recruitment, contacts, and institutional information pages.
What to Verify Next
For formal procurement or enrollment due diligence, confirm EURECOM's current institutional status and any applicable academic authorization through the relevant French higher-education or institutional registry. Confirm payment and admissions instructions using contact details published through an independently obtained institutional directory.
- The admissions, tuition, scholarship, and academic-program pages define the site's principal user-facing transactions.
- The contact and institutional-information sections provide the appropriate basis for independent confirmation.
- No financial-service license number or regulated-investment offering is presented in the supplied content.
Summary Verdict
EURECOM presents as a legitimate, established, high-trust educational and research institution. The identity, purpose, historical continuity, technical posture, and reputation signals converge without contradiction, supporting normal interaction including account login and standard use.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves directly to two likely origin addresses and does not use an identified CDN or WAF. Its hosting is provided through FR-RENATER - Renater in France; this direct institutional hosting posture is a neutral infrastructure characteristic and does not introduce a finding against legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Normal academic, admissions, account, and institutional interactions are appropriate, with registry confirmation reserved for formal enterprise or regulatory due diligence.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-02 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 eurecom.fr.
- The request stayed on eurecom.fr. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under GIP RENATER. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by eurecom.fr, across 3 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-03-07. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 1997-07-28. Clear
- It is hosted on FR-RENATER, from a server in FR. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | GIP RENATER |
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| Hosting | FR-RENATER - Renater, FR |
| Country | FR |
| Server IP | 193.55.113.222 |
| Name servers | dns.eurecom.fr, ns-auth1.enst.fr, ns-auth2.enst.fr |
| SSL issuer | GEANT TLS ECC 1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-12-16 |
| Domain age | 30.4 years |
| Domain expiry | 2027-03-07 |
| Archive first seen | 1997-07-28 |
| Archive snapshots | 1708 |
| 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 eurecom.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.