Verdict
indiapost.gov.in 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 India Post (Department of Posts) homepage providing information about services, tracking, savings schemes, insurance, recruitment, tenders, and public announcements. |
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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 | 26 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 20002334 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by emSign SSL CA - G1 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Domain age: more than 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2000.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
India Post is a Government of India public-service portal operated for postal information, parcel tracking, citizen services, savings and insurance schemes, recruitment, tenders, announcements, and related Department of Posts services; its apparent purpose is informational and administrative rather than commercial or investment solicitation.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed. The homepage presents a coherent government-service identity under the India Post and Department of Posts names, with no detected phishing, brand-impersonation, malicious-content, or blacklist indicators. Available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate public-sector website, although the real-world operator identity remains supported rather than independently proven by this assessment.
- The homepage identifies “India Post,” “Department of Posts,” “Government of India,” and the Ministry of Communications, and provides government-service navigation including tracking, complaints, recruitment, tenders, and public announcements.
- The domain was registered in 2003 (~23.48 years old); archival coverage records 2,334 snapshots from 2000 through 2026, spanning 27 years.
- External reputation checks recorded 0 malicious detections, 0 suspicious detections, no blacklist finding, and 0 AbuseIPDB reports; the site held traffic rank 7457.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site’s apparent institutional role is clearly presented through its government and Department of Posts references, and its content is consistent with a public-service portal rather than a private financial business. No commercial license claim or license number is presented in the supplied page content; this is a disclosure and verification consideration, not evidence of a scam, particularly because the stated business model is government administration rather than private-profit solicitation. The operator connection should therefore be described as likely and evidence-consistent, not as independently proven.
- The homepage provides links to “About Us,” “Our Organisation,” “Directory,” “Acts and Policies,” “Orders and Notices,” “Contact Us,” and grievance-redressal functions.
- The site’s government-domain context is `gov.in`, categorized as a sovereign government service with a verified government trust floor.
- The site is hosted on AS4758, NICNET-VSNL-BOARDER-AP - National Informatics Centre, IN; its TLS certificate is OV-validated, issued by emSign SSL CA - G1 for DEPARTMENT OF POSTS, and valid to 2026-10-11.
What to Verify Next
Before credential or payment interactions, an organization should confirm that the accessed domain is the current address published through an independently obtained Government of India or Department of Posts communication channel. For services involving funds, savings, insurance, or account actions, the applicable scheme terms, official support route, and payment-protection arrangements should be confirmed through the site’s published institutional channels and an independent offline contact.
- The homepage provides “Contact Us,” “Directory,” “Help and FAQs,” “File a Complaint,” and “Grievance Redressal” routes for channel confirmation.
- The service navigation identifies banking services, saving schemes, postal insurance, and money-remittance functions, making scheme-specific terms and transaction controls relevant to any consequential interaction.
- The homepage contains no login form or sensitive form in the observed capture, and no untrusted form destination was detected.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is high trust and low risk, with strong convergence between the site’s public-sector purpose, established continuity, government infrastructure, transport security, and clean external reputation. The evidence supports an established, apparently legitimate website; operator identity should nevertheless remain qualified as likely rather than treated as independently verified.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves directly to one identified origin address rather than a CDN edge, and is served from AS4758, NICNET-VSNL-BOARDER-AP - National Informatics Centre, IN. This government-operated hosting context and the OV TLS certificate are mitigating infrastructure signals, but infrastructure alone is not proof of institutional legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Normal informational use is proportionate to the observed posture; credential or payment actions should follow ordinary independent confirmation of the official service context, applicable terms, and payment protections.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-17 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 | 80/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 80% |
- Identity verified on page
- Trusted social count=4
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 indiapost.gov.in.
- The request stayed on indiapost.gov.in. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under National Informatics Centre. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by sify.net, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-02-28. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2000-12-06. Clear
- It is hosted on NICNET-VSNL-BOARDER-AP, from a server in IN. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | National Informatics Centre |
|---|---|
| Hosting | NICNET-VSNL-BOARDER-AP - National Informatics Centre, IN |
| Country | IN |
| Server IP | 45.127.75.247 |
| Name servers | pdns.sify.net, sdns.sify.net |
| SSL issuer | emSign SSL CA - G1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-11 |
| Domain age | 25.69 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-02-28 |
| Archive first seen | 2000-12-06 |
| Archive snapshots | 2334 |
| 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 indiapost.gov.in 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.