Verdict
jharkhand.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 Jharkhand state government portal offering departmental information, citizen services, tenders, notifications, downloads and contact details. Contains login/register and various service links for residents and government employees. |
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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 | 22 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Never archivedNo public history of this site | Watch |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by GlobalSign RSA OV SSL CA 2018 | Noted |
The page as captured
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 is the official Jharkhand State Portal, presenting government departments, public notices, tenders, policy documents, downloads, citizen services, contact information, and login or registration functions for residents and government personnel.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed. The homepage consistently presents the site as the Government of Jharkhand’s official portal, and its content is aligned with a public-sector information and services model rather than a commercial or deceptive offering. The available external reputation checks found no malicious or suspicious classification, and the domain has a top-tier global traffic footprint. The site is therefore apparently legitimate and evidence-consistent with an established government portal, although the real-world operator identity is not independently verified.
- The homepage is titled “Jharkhand State Portal | Official Website of Government of Jharkhand” and identifies the “GOVERNMENT OF JHARKHAND.”
- The homepage provides departmental directories, district information, tenders, notifications, policy documents, downloads, and citizen-service links consistent with a state-government portal.
- External reputation checks recorded no malicious or suspicious detections, no blacklist hit, and a Tranco rank of 9068.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site’s apparent function is public administration and citizen service delivery, not the provision of a separately regulated commercial financial product. Its identity presentation is coherent across the supplied homepage content, but independent verification connecting the website to the real-world operating authority remains incomplete. The site’s registration and transport-security records provide substantial institutional consistency: the domain is long-established, registration is associated with the National Informatics Centre and the Jharkhand Agency for Promotion of Information Technology, and the certificate uses organization-validated encryption. The absence of a commercial license claim is not a concern for the stated government-portal business model; service-specific terms and any applicable government payment disclosures should nevertheless be checked before sensitive transactions.
- Domain registered on 2004-08-27 and recorded as approximately 21.98 years old; registrar: National Informatics Centre.
- Registration organization: Jharkhand Agency for Promotion of Information Technology.
- Hosted on AS136656, JHSDC-AS – Jharkhand Agency For Promotion Of Information Technology, IN.
- TLS certificate: GlobalSign RSA OV SSL CA 2018, organization validation (OV), valid to 2027-02-07.
What to Verify Next
Before credential submission or any service-related payment, the relevant department name, service terms, and official contact route should be confirmed through an independently obtained government source or offline channel. Where a transaction is involved, the payment page should be checked for the expected government service description, official receipt process, and applicable payment-protection arrangements. Login and registration should be limited to services that are clearly linked from the portal’s documented citizen or employee workflows.
- The homepage exposes four forms: login, registration, feedback or suggestion, and contact.
- The supplied form analysis found no sensitive form directed to an untrusted destination.
- The portal’s stated service areas include citizen services, departmental information, notices, downloads, and contact or emergency information.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is high trust and low risk, with strong convergence between the site’s government-service content, long operating history, clean reputation, and validated institutional infrastructure. The site appears established and legitimate, while the connection between the online service and the real-world operator should remain treated as apparent rather than independently proven.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves to a single likely origin address and does not use a detected CDN or WAF edge layer. This reduces the benefit of intermediary traffic filtering but is not, by itself, an adverse legitimacy signal; the identified government-operated hosting environment and valid organization-validated TLS provide useful infrastructure consistency.
Closing Assessment
Normal browsing and ordinary portal use are proportionate to the available evidence; independent confirmation of the relevant department and payment or service details should precede credential or payment interactions.
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 | 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 jharkhand.gov.in.
- The request stayed on jharkhand.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 gov.in, across 4 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2026-08-27. Noted
- It is hosted on JHSDC-AS, from a server in IN. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | National Informatics Centre |
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| Hosting | JHSDC-AS - Jharkhand Agency For Promotion Of Information Technology, IN |
| Country | IN |
| Server IP | 103.97.108.179 |
| Name servers | ns4.jharkhand.gov.in, ns3.jharkhand.gov.in, ns1.jharkhand.gov.in, ns2.jharkhand.gov.in |
| SSL issuer | GlobalSign RSA OV SSL CA 2018 |
| SSL expiry | 2027-02-07 |
| Domain age | 21.98 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2026-08-27 |
| 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 jharkhand.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.