Verdict
netherlandsworldwide.nl 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 | Homepage for NetherlandsWorldwide, a Dutch government information portal providing guidance on travel, visas, identity documents, work, family, education, living, money, transport, and health. |
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Evidence status and limitations
Evidence completeness: UNKNOWN
- 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 | 12 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 20173094 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by DigiCert G3 TLS EU ECC P-384 SHA384 2022 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).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2017.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
NetherlandsWorldwide is a Dutch government public-service information portal presenting guidance on travel, visas, identity documents, work, family, education, living, money, transport, and health matters.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed. The homepage identifies NetherlandsWorldwide as a Government of the Netherlands service, presents coherent public-service content, and shows no phishing, impersonation, sensitive-data harvesting, or other deception indicators. External reputation checks found no malicious or suspicious detections, supporting the conclusion that the site is legitimate and established.
- The homepage identifies “NetherlandsWorldwide” and “Government of the Netherlands.”
- The domain was registered on 2014-10-15 and is approximately 11.8 years old.
- Web archives contain 3,094 snapshots from 2017-06-03 through 2026-07-30, covering 10 tracked years.
- External checks recorded 0 malicious detections and 0 suspicious detections, with no phishing or domain-blocking hit.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site presents a clear government-information identity and an informational, non-financial business model. No financial licensing claim is made; this is a limited disclosure consideration rather than an identity or legitimacy contradiction. The site's transport security and long-running public-service presence provide additional support for its institutional character.
- The homepage navigation includes government-service categories and an “About this website” destination.
- Hosting telemetry identifies AS20940 operated by AKAMAI-ASN1 – Akamai International B.V., NL.
- The TLS certificate is OV-validated, issued by DigiCert G3 TLS EU ECC P-384 SHA384 2022 CA1, and valid through 2027-01-20.
- The site’s published content is classified as government/public-service information with no stated financial product or licensing activity.
What to Verify Next
For consequential administrative matters, confirm the relevant instruction through an independently accessed Dutch government channel and use the site’s own About and Contact pages to validate service-routing details.
- The homepage provides an “About this website” page for institutional context.
- The homepage provides a “Contact” route for service-related enquiries.
- The site’s topic structure separates travel, identity, work, health, and other public-service guidance.
Summary Verdict
NetherlandsWorldwide presents a legitimate, high-trust institutional profile with strong identity consistency, sustained public-service continuity, clean reputation signals, and no observed contradiction. Normal interaction, including account login where applicable and standard use of the site, is appropriate.
Infrastructure Integrity
The website is protected by Akamai CDN/WAF infrastructure. All observed addresses are CDN edge servers, while no origin-server candidate was observed; this reduces direct origin exposure and is a mitigating infrastructure control rather than independent proof of legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Prospective users may proceed with normal site interaction and standard service actions, applying ordinary care when making consequential administrative decisions.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-01 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 | 30/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 50% |
- No on-site identity signals detected
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 netherlandsworldwide.nl.
- The request stayed on netherlandsworldwide.nl. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Rijksoverheid. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by creation, across 8 name servers. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2017-06-03. Clear
- It is hosted on AKAMAI-ASN1, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Rijksoverheid |
|---|---|
| Hosting | AKAMAI-ASN1 - Akamai International B.V., NL |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 2a02:26f0:e80:7f::17d8:869e |
| Name servers | Creation, Updated, a1-45.akam.net, a11-67.akam.net, a16-64.akam.net, a20-66.akam.net, a24-67.akam.net, a7-64.akam.net |
| SSL issuer | DigiCert G3 TLS EU ECC P-384 SHA384 2022 CA1 |
| SSL expiry | 2027-01-20 |
| Domain age | 11.8 years |
| Domain expiry | Not available |
| Archive first seen | 2017-06-03 |
| Archive snapshots | 3094 |
| 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 netherlandsworldwide.nl 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.