Verdict
house.gov 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 homepage for the U.S. House of Representatives with navigation to representatives, committees, legislative activity, schedules, visitor information, and links to watch live proceedings. |
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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 DigiCert Global G2 TLS RSA SHA256 2020 CA1 | 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.
- The operator behind the site could not be independently connected to a real-world brand or person.
Full analysis
Overview
This website presents itself as the public-service site of the U.S. House of Representatives, offering representative lookup, legislative activity and schedules, committee information, visitor guidance, educational resources, employment information, and live House proceedings rather than commercial products or services.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed: the reviewed content does not indicate phishing, impersonation, conflicting legal identities, or malicious intent. The homepage is substantive and institutionally focused, with public-service functions such as representative lookup and legislative information, and it does not present a login or payment workflow. The available evidence is therefore consistent with an established, apparently legitimate government website, although the real-world operator identity is not independently verified.
- The homepage provides government-specific navigation for representatives, committees, legislative activity, visitor information, and live proceedings, with no identified fraud indicators.
- Domain registration evidence records house.gov as registered on 1997-10-02, approximately 28.88 years old.
- Evaluated external reputation checks returned no malicious or suspicious detections, and no broker-reputation match was identified.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site presents a public governmental information function rather than a regulated commercial or financial service, so no commercial license claim is expected from the reviewed homepage. Its institutional identity is apparent from the content and government namespace, but independent linkage to the real-world operator remains unverified. This is a qualification on identity assurance, not an indication of fraud or regulatory misconduct.
- Domain registration is handled through get.gov.
- The site's transport encryption uses an OV certificate issued by DigiCert Global G2 TLS RSA SHA256 2020 CA1, with validity through 2026-11-26.
- Confirmed technical serving evidence identifies AS16625, Akamai Technologies, Inc., US.
What to Verify Next
For ordinary informational use, the principal verification step is to confirm the domain through an independently sourced government reference before following externally linked services. If a future workflow requests credentials or payment information, the destination, institutional ownership, and applicable transaction protections should be checked independently before proceeding.
- The homepage's representative-lookup and visitor-information functions provide clear institutional reference points for independent source comparison.
- The reviewed homepage contains search and representative-lookup/contact forms, but no sensitive form or commercial checkout was identified.
- The page behavior showed no hidden forms, password-external submissions, wallet connection, clipboard hijacking, or cloaking indicators.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is high-trust and low-risk, and the evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate website. The remaining qualification concerns independent operator-identity verification rather than observed scam, impersonation, or malicious activity.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site benefits from CDN/WAF protection using Amazon AS16509 edge infrastructure; observed edge addresses were 15.197.146.213 and 3.33.159.71, and the origin server was not observable in this analysis. This architecture is a mitigating control that reduces direct exposure of the origin, but it is not by itself proof of legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Routine informational interaction is appropriate; any future credential or payment interaction should be preceded by ordinary independent identity and transaction-protection checks.
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 | 30% |
- 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 house.gov.
- The request stayed on house.gov. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under get.gov. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by house.gov, across 6 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-08-01. Noted
- It is hosted on AKAMAI-AS, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | get.gov |
|---|---|
| Hosting | AKAMAI-AS - Akamai Technologies, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 2a02:26f0:e80:59c::12a8 |
| Name servers | oxygen.house.gov, oxygen2.house.gov, pdns109.ultradns.biz, pdns109.ultradns.com, pdns109.ultradns.net, pdns109.ultradns.org |
| SSL issuer | DigiCert Global G2 TLS RSA SHA256 2020 CA1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-11-26 |
| Domain age | 28.88 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-08-01 |
| 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 house.gov 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.