Verdict
ntppool.org 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 NTP Pool project site describing the public network time service, how to join and use the pool, news about infrastructure and monitoring, and community information. The site is informational and operated by volunteers with hosting support from known providers. |
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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 | 19 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 20083 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by Certainly Intermediate R1 | 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 2008.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
The website is the NTP Pool Project, a volunteer-run open-source infrastructure service that provides public network time synchronization, explains how visitors can use or contribute servers to the pool, and publishes project, monitoring, infrastructure, and community information.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed. The site presents a consistent informational project identity, with no detected phishing, impersonation, malicious-content, or abuse indicators. Its observed behavior is non-transactional and does not show signs of credential harvesting, wallet interaction, cloaking, or suspicious external activity.
- The homepage and project content contain no reported red flags or brand-impersonation indicators.
- Browser observation recorded no login form, sensitive form, wallet connection, password submission, clipboard manipulation, or suspicious inline script.
- External reputation checks recorded zero malicious and zero suspicious detections, with no blacklist or phishing finding.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate open-source infrastructure project, but the real-world operator identity is not independently verified. The site does not present a financial-services license or registration claim; given its stated informational and volunteer-run purpose, this is a transparency point for confirmation rather than evidence of misconduct. The domain and technical history provide substantial provenance support, while the archived record should be treated as limited historical coverage rather than a complete record.
- Domain registered on 2007-07-01 and approximately 19.13 years old; registrar: Porkbun LLC; expiration: 2028-07-01.
- Archive record contains 3 snapshots spanning 2008-08-20 to 2009-04-22 across 2 tracked years.
- TLS certificate is valid, issued by Certainly Intermediate R1 at DV validation level, valid through 2026-08-28.
What to Verify Next
Before any credential or payment interaction, independently confirm the responsible organization, applicable terms, and any relevant registration or licensing position through authoritative sources rather than relying solely on on-site descriptions. Confirm official contact channels through an independent route, and ensure that any future payment request includes ordinary merchant identity, return-policy, and payment-protection safeguards.
- The homepage and project pages are classified as informational and contain no sensitive forms.
- The site content focuses on using or contributing to public NTP infrastructure, with no apparent deposit, purchase, or other financial-transaction workflow.
- The project pages provide operational, infrastructure, and community information that can be compared against independently obtained project records.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is high-trust and low-risk, with the evidence consistent with an established, apparently legitimate website. Normal informational interaction is proportionate, while the absence of independent operator verification means that legitimacy should be described as apparent rather than proven.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is protected by Fastly CDN/WAF infrastructure, and observed addresses resolve to CDN edge servers rather than a directly exposed origin. This is a meaningful mitigation against routine infrastructure exposure, but it supports security posture rather than independently proving the operator’s identity.
- Served from AS54113 (FASTLY - Fastly, Inc., US); observed server IP: 199.232.173.55.
- Fastly edge addresses observed: 151.101.1.55, 151.101.129.55, 151.101.193.55, and 151.101.65.55.
- Origin candidates observed: 0; CDN edge addresses observed: 8.
Closing Assessment
The site is suitable for ordinary informational use; any future credential or payment request should first undergo independent identity, terms, and payment-protection checks.
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 | 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 ntppool.org.
- The request stayed on ntppool.org. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Porkbun LLC. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by pch.net, across 5 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2028-07-01. Clear
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2008-08-20. Clear
- It is hosted on FASTLY, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Porkbun LLC |
|---|---|
| Hosting | FASTLY - Fastly, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 2a04:4e42:6b::311 |
| Name servers | anyns.pch.net, ns1.eu.bitnames.com, ns1.us.bitnames.com, ns2.us.bitnames.com, ns3.us.bitnames.com |
| SSL issuer | Certainly Intermediate R1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-08-28 |
| Domain age | 19.13 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2028-07-01 |
| Archive first seen | 2008-08-20 |
| Archive snapshots | 3 |
| 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 ntppool.org 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.