Verdict
mee.gov.cn 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 website of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment of the People's Republic of China. Provides news, announcements, policy and regulatory documents, environmental monitoring data and public service resources. |
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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 | 8.3 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 20182029 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by Xcc Trust OV SSL CA | Noted |
The page as captured
No screenshot is retained for this report.
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Domain age: 3 to 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
This website is an official-style government information portal presenting news, policy documents, regulatory notices, environmental monitoring information, and public-service resources for the Ministry of Ecology and Environment of the People’s Republic of China. Its apparent purpose is public information and institutional communication rather than commercial activity, financial solicitation, or transactional services.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No phishing, impersonation, blacklist, or other contradictory signals were observed. The homepage presents a coherent government/public-service model, contains substantial institutional and regulatory content, and exposes no login form, sensitive submission form, wallet connection, payment workflow, or other apparent abuse mechanism. External reputation checks were clean, and the site’s historical record shows continuous activity consistent with the current informational purpose. The real-world operator identity remains independently unverified, so the on-page institutional identity should be treated as apparent rather than proven.
- The homepage is titled “中华人民共和国生态环境部” and contains government news, policy documents, regulatory notices, environmental data, organizational information, and public-service material.
- The homepage analysis recorded no login form, hidden sensitive form, external password form, wallet-provider activity, or clipboard-hijacking behavior.
- The domain was registered on 2018-04-16 and is approximately 8.33 years old.
- The site has 2,029 archive snapshots spanning 2018-07-20 through 2026-08-09, covering 9 tracked years with a maximum observed gap of 1 year.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The website’s stated function is governmental publication and public administration, not a regulated financial product or commercial marketplace; consequently, a financial license disclosure is not an expected feature of the presented business model. Its organizational pages identify ministry leadership, institutional responsibilities, policy-document libraries, and administrative units. A registration record lists the owner as the Ministry of Ecology and Environment of the People’s Republic of China and the registrar as 阿里云计算有限公司（万网）, but these records and the site’s own identity presentation do not independently prove the real-world operator. No separate third-party regulated-entity determination is established by the available evidence.
- The organization section lists ministry leadership, principal responsibilities, departments, dispatched institutions, affiliated units, and policy-document categories.
- The registration record lists the owner as the Ministry of Ecology and Environment of the People’s Republic of China and the registrar as 阿里云计算有限公司（万网）.
- Confirmed server telemetry identifies AS139057, ELD-AS-AP—Edgenext Legend Dynasty Pte. Ltd., SG.
- The site uses an OV TLS certificate issued by Xcc Trust OV SSL CA, valid through 2026-12-07.
What to Verify Next
Before any credential or payment interaction associated with a service linked from the portal, independent checks should confirm that the relevant destination is an officially designated government channel and that any external provider has an appropriate identity, terms, refund arrangements, and payment protections. Contact details should be confirmed through an independently sourced government directory or offline institutional channel rather than relying solely on page-presented information.
- The homepage provides Chinese, English, and mobile-access navigation, supporting a public-information rather than transaction-led presentation.
- The organization and policy sections provide institutional duties and document repositories that can be cross-checked against independently sourced government publications.
- The observed page behavior recorded no external POST activity and no untrusted form destination.
Summary Verdict
The available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate government website and supports a high-trust, low-risk posture. No contradictory scam or impersonation indicators were identified, although independent confirmation of the real-world operator remains incomplete.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site does not use a detected CDN or WAF edge layer; infrastructure resolution identified one IP as a likely origin, hosted through eGovNet—China eGovNet Information Center, CN, on AS37937. This is a direct hosting arrangement rather than a protective CDN-mediated posture, but the resolved infrastructure is attributable and does not, on the available evidence, create a material concern.
Closing Assessment
Normal informational browsing is proportionate; any future credential or payment interaction should follow independent merchant-identity, return-policy, and payment-protection checks before proceeding.
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 | 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 mee.gov.cn.
- The request stayed on mee.gov.cn. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under 阿里云计算有限公司（万网）. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by alidns.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2028-04-16. Clear
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2018-07-20. Clear
- It is hosted on ELD-AS-AP, from a server in SC. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | 阿里云计算有限公司（万网） |
|---|---|
| Hosting | ELD-AS-AP - Edgenext Legend Dynasty Pte. Ltd., SG |
| Country | SC |
| Server IP | 2407:2440:e00f::13 |
| Name servers | vip3.alidns.com, vip4.alidns.com |
| SSL issuer | Xcc Trust OV SSL CA |
| SSL expiry | 2026-12-07 |
| Domain age | 8.33 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2028-04-16 |
| Archive first seen | 2018-07-20 |
| Archive snapshots | 2029 |
| 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 mee.gov.cn 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.