Verdict
technion.ac.il 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 institutional webpage for the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. Contains navigation for about, faculties, admissions, news, events, and policies (privacy, accessibility); recruitment and donation links are referenced. |
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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 | 29 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 19975000 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by GEANT TLS RSA 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 1997.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
The website is the official institutional web presence of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, presenting information about faculties, academic programs, admissions, research, news, events, student and staff resources, institutional management, policies, recruitment, and donations. Its apparent purpose is to support public university education, research, administration, and outreach rather than commercial trading or financial activity.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed. The homepage and institutional navigation consistently present a technical university identity, with no phishing form, wallet functionality, brand-impersonation indicator, or commercial abuse pattern identified. Available external reputation checks returned no malicious or suspicious findings, and the historical record shows sustained continuity rather than repurposing into an unrelated or deceptive operation. The apparent institutional identity is strong, although the real-world operator has not been independently verified by the supplied evidence.
- Domain history: registered 1997 (29.059548254620122 years old).
- Web archive: 5,000 snapshots from 1997-07-25T18:26:28Z through 2025-12-29T07:40:38Z, spanning 29 years with a maximum observed gap of 1 year.
- Homepage analysis: informational university page with no login form, hidden form, wallet activity, or detected brand-impersonation indicator.
- External reputation assessment: 0 malicious findings, 0 suspicious findings, Google Safe Browsing malicious status false, and external blacklist status false.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site’s legal and governance navigation includes legal advice, institutional policies, privacy and accessibility material, management structures, a freedom-of-information section, and administrative procedures. The supplied content does not independently establish the real-world operator’s identity or provide a separately verified regulatory registration; for a public university, the more relevant question is institutional confirmation rather than a commercial-services licence. This is a verification consideration, not evidence of deception. A separate broker-reputation dataset produced no match and should be treated only as contextual reassurance, not as a legal or licensing determination.
- Institutional pages: navigation includes management, legal advice, policies, freedom-of-information material, privacy, and accessibility information.
- Hosting infrastructure: served from AS378, MACHBA-AS - IUCC - Israel InterUniversity Computation Center, IL.
- Transport encryption: TLS certificate issued by GEANT TLS RSA 1, validation level OV, subject organisation Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, valid to 2027-02-07T04:25:58+00:00.
What to Verify Next
Before credential or payment interactions, an organisation should independently confirm that the academic, admissions, donation, and administrative channels correspond to the institution’s official contact routes. Any payment should be checked against the applicable institutional terms, refund arrangements, and payment-provider protections, with institutional status confirmed through an independent academic or governmental source where required.
- Admissions and registration pages: provide the relevant institutional context for confirming enrolment and payment procedures.
- Donation and recruitment references: provide defined transaction or engagement contexts for independent contact-channel confirmation.
- Legal, policy, and management pages: provide source material for comparing institutional names, procedures, and applicable terms.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is high trust and low risk. Available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate institutional website, while independent confirmation of the real-world operator identity remains incomplete.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves to one likely origin address, with no CDN or WAF vendor detected. This indicates a direct hosting posture without an identified edge-protection layer; it is an infrastructure characteristic and does not, on its own, indicate illegitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Ordinary use is proportionate to the available evidence, subject to standard independent checks of institutional identity, applicable terms, and payment protections before sensitive interactions.
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 technion.ac.il.
- The request stayed on technion.ac.il. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 1997-07-25. Clear
- It is hosted on MACHBA-AS, from a server in IL. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Not available |
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| Hosting | MACHBA-AS - IUCC - Israel InterUniversity Computation Center, IL |
| Country | IL |
| Server IP | 132.68.238.32 |
| Name servers | Not available |
| SSL issuer | GEANT TLS RSA 1 |
| SSL expiry | 2027-02-07 |
| Domain age | 29.06 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | Not available |
| Archive first seen | 1997-07-25 |
| Archive snapshots | 5000 |
| 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 technion.ac.il 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.