Verdict
postgresql.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 project site for PostgreSQL providing downloads, documentation, release announcements, community resources, events, mailing lists, and bug submission guidance. |
|---|
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 | 30 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Never archivedNo public history of this site | Watch |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YR1 | 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
PostgreSQL.org is the project and documentation portal for PostgreSQL, presenting an open-source relational database, software downloads, release information, technical documentation, community resources, developer guidance, support channels, and donation options. Its apparent model is the maintenance and distribution of open-source database software supported by community participation, sponsorship, donations, and voluntary services rather than direct commercial product sales.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No scam, phishing, impersonation, or identity-contradiction signals were observed. The homepage content is consistent with an established open-source software project: it provides technical releases, documentation, community participation, governance information, and bug-reporting guidance, without promotional investment claims, aggressive payment requests, or other abuse-oriented mechanics. The site also presents no login form, sensitive form, wallet connection, cryptocurrency feature, or untrusted form destination in the observed interaction. The contact-channel integrity review identified no suspicious contact address.
- The homepage identifies PostgreSQL as an open-source object-relational database project and provides release, download, documentation, community, and governance content.
- The homepage interaction contained no sensitive forms, hidden forms, password submissions, wallet-provider activity, clipboard manipulation, or cloaking indicators.
- External reputation checks recorded zero malicious and zero suspicious detections, with no confirmed blacklist or phishing hit.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The available evidence is consistent with a technical open-source project rather than a regulated financial or investment service, so financial licensing is not the apparent business requirement. The site’s project and community references provide substantive context, but the real-world operator identity is not independently verified from the supplied evidence; the apparent legitimacy of the project should therefore remain qualified rather than treated as proof of a specific legal entity. No third-party broker match was identified. The absence of a formal independently verified legal-entity or regulatory registration link is a transparency point for institutional onboarding, not evidence of a scam.
- Domain registration records identify Gandi SAS as registrar; the domain was registered on 1996-10-22, has an age of 29.84 years, and expires on 2029-10-21.
- Technical service identification recorded AS39029, Redpill Linpro AS, NO, as the server organization.
- The site’s transport encryption uses a YR1-issued DV TLS certificate valid through 2026-10-31.
- The homepage exposes About, Governance, Community, Support, and Donate areas relevant to organizational and operational review.
What to Verify Next
Before credential or payment interactions, an enterprise should independently confirm the project’s responsible legal or nonprofit structure through its governance and organizational materials, confirm that any download or support destination is reached through the project’s primary navigation, and apply standard payment-protection and return-policy checks if a third party offers paid services under the PostgreSQL name. Official support and contact channels should be confirmed through an independent route when the interaction involves account access or financial commitment.
- The homepage provides direct navigation to About, Governance, Support, Donate, Download, and Documentation sections for independent cross-checking.
- The stated business model is community-supported open-source software distribution, with no direct-sales checkout or sensitive transaction form observed on the homepage.
- The observed site behavior completed successfully without wallet activity, external password submission, or suspicious destination redirection.
Summary Verdict
Available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate website and supports a high-trust, low-risk posture for its stated informational and open-source purpose. The conclusion concerns website trust and content consistency; it does not independently prove the identity of the real-world operator.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site’s infrastructure is resolved through conova communications GmbH in Austria on AS5404, with two apparent origin addresses and no detected CDN or WAF layer. This is a conventional, directly hosted posture rather than a protective infrastructure advantage, but it does not conflict with the site’s clean technical and content profile.
Closing Assessment
Normal informational use is proportionate to the evidence; any credential submission, paid support engagement, or payment should still follow ordinary independent identity, service-terms, and payment-protection checks.
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 | 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 postgresql.org.
- The request stayed on postgresql.org. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Gandi SAS. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by postgresql.org, across 4 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2029-10-21. Clear
- It is hosted on REDPILL-LINPRO, from a server in NO. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Gandi SAS |
|---|---|
| Hosting | REDPILL-LINPRO - Redpill Linpro AS, NO |
| Country | NO |
| Server IP | 2a02:c0:301:0:ffff::32 |
| Name servers | ns1.postgresql.org, ns2.postgresql.org, ns3.postgresql.org, ns4.postgresql.org |
| SSL issuer | YR1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-31 |
| Domain age | 29.84 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2029-10-21 |
| 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 postgresql.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.