Verdict
lsgkerala.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 Local Self Government Department (LSGD) Kerala website in Malayalam and English offering departmental information, schemes, news, tenders and links to online citizen services. Owned by Kerala government and developed by Information Kerala Mission. |
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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 | 17 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 20182644 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by EM DV TLS CA - G2A-1 | 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 2018.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
The website is the bilingual official information portal of Kerala’s Local Self Government Department, presenting departmental information, government schemes, news, tenders, publications, contacts, and links to online citizen services. Its apparent purpose is public administration and service delivery rather than commercial monetization.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed. The homepage presents a coherent government/public-service purpose, with no detected phishing, impersonation, malicious-content, or suspicious-behavior indicators. The site’s long registration continuity and substantial historical presence further support provenance consistent with an established portal, although the real-world operator identity remains independently unverified. No anomalous contact-channel issue was identified in the supplied page findings.
- Homepage content identifies the Local Self Government Department of Kerala and presents departmental schemes, tenders, publications, and citizen-service links; no red flags were recorded.
- Domain registration: 2009-12-04T12:02:00Z; age 16.71 years.
- Web-archive history: 2,644 snapshots spanning 2018–2026, with 9 years tracked and a maximum observed gap of 1 year.
- Evaluated reputation checks recorded 0 malicious detections and 0 suspicious detections, with no phishing or impersonation finding.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The portal identifies itself as the Local Self Government Department of the Government of Kerala and states that it was developed by Information Kerala Mission. These on-page institutional claims are consistent with the site’s content and government-oriented function, but they do not independently prove the real-world operator identity. No licensing disclosure is presented in the supplied material; for a public-sector information portal, licensing may not be applicable, but the site’s institutional and service-delivery status should still be confirmed through an independent government source. The available evidence is otherwise consistent with an established, apparently legitimate public-service website.
- Homepage: bilingual departmental navigation covers government bodies, public schemes, resources, tenders, and online citizen services.
- Hosting: served from AS9829, BSNL-NIB - National Internet Backbone, IN.
- Transport encryption: TLS certificate issued by EM DV TLS CA - G2A-1, validation level DV, valid to 2026-10-17T10:00:03+00:00.
- Registration records identify National Informatics Centre as registrar and Local Self Government Department as the organization.
What to Verify Next
Before credential or payment interactions on linked services, independently confirm that the destination service and its published contact channels belong to the relevant Kerala government department. Where a transaction involves fees or personal information, confirm the applicable service terms, refund or remedial process, and payment-protection arrangements through an official government source or an independently obtained offline channel. The displayed institutional identity should also be compared with an authoritative government directory rather than treated as conclusive proof by itself.
- Identity and department pages provide the institutional names that should be used for an independent government-directory comparison.
- Service-link areas provide the transaction or submission pathways that should be checked separately before sensitive use.
- The supplied assessment records operator identity as unverified despite coherent on-page identity signals.
Summary Verdict
Available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate website operating at a high-trust, low-risk posture. No scam or impersonation contradiction was identified, while independent confirmation of the real-world operator remains the principal qualification.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is not presented through a detected CDN or WAF, and two resolved addresses were assessed as likely origin addresses. This is an infrastructure characteristic rather than evidence of malicious activity; the overall technical posture remains compatible with ordinary public-sector hosting.
Closing Assessment
Routine informational use is proportionate; before submitting credentials or making payments, ordinary independent checks of institutional identity, applicable service terms, and payment protection should be completed.
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 lsgkerala.gov.in.
- The request stayed on lsgkerala.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 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2026-12-04. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2018-02-06. Clear
- It is hosted on BSNL-NIB, from a server in IN. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | National Informatics Centre |
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| Hosting | BSNL-NIB - National Internet Backbone, IN |
| Country | IN |
| Server IP | 117.239.77.95 |
| Name servers | ldslave.kerala.gov.in, ldmaster.kerala.gov.in |
| SSL issuer | EM DV TLS CA - G2A-1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-17 |
| Domain age | 16.71 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2026-12-04 |
| Archive first seen | 2018-02-06 |
| Archive snapshots | 2644 |
| 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 lsgkerala.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.