Verdict
titech.ac.jp 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-looking university site (Science Tokyo / formerly Tokyo Institute of Technology) presenting news, research articles, admissions information, and event listings. No evidence of financial investment products, credential-harvesting forms, or impersonation. |
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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 | 30 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 19975000 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by NII Open Domain CA - G7 RSA | 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 1997.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
The website is the institutional site for Science Tokyo, formerly Tokyo Institute of Technology, presenting university news, admissions information, research highlights, events, international exchange, alumni services, and donation opportunities for students, researchers, staff, and the wider public.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed. The homepage presents a coherent public-university purpose, with substantive education, research, admissions, event, and institutional content rather than financial products, credential-harvesting forms, or deceptive transaction flows. External reputation checks identified no malicious or suspicious findings, and the site’s established historical continuity is consistent with an authentic institutional presence. The available evidence supports an apparently legitimate site, although it does not independently prove the real-world operator’s identity.
- The homepage identifies “Science Tokyo” and explains its transition from Tokyo Institute of Technology following the 2024 institutional integration.
- The homepage contains university news, research articles, admissions pathways, event listings, and donation information; no sensitive forms or login forms were detected.
- Domain registration continuity: registered 1997 (29.55 years old).
- Web archive coverage: 5,000 snapshots from 1997-01-24 through 2023-11-14, spanning 27 years.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site’s apparent operating model is public higher education, research, events, alumni relations, and institutional partnerships, not a financial or investment service requiring the type of license normally associated with a regulated trading or payment platform. The pages identify the institution and provide multiple audience-specific university pathways, but the supplied evidence does not independently verify the legal operator. This is an identity-assurance limitation rather than an identity contradiction. No adverse broker-related match or other third-party reputational warning was identified.
- The homepage’s institutional navigation covers education, research, international exchange, admissions, corporate collaboration, alumni, students, and staff.
- The site’s transport encryption uses an OV certificate issued by NII Open Domain CA - G7 RSA for Institute of Science Tokyo, valid through 2026-12-26.
- Network telemetry identifies AS8075, Microsoft Corporation, United States, as the serving network organization.
What to Verify Next
Before credential or payment interactions, independently confirm that the relevant admissions, donation, and contact channels are published through official Science Tokyo communications and review the applicable institutional terms and payment-protection arrangements. For any transaction involving an external service, confirm the counterparty’s legal identity and applicable authorization directly with the relevant authority or institution rather than relying solely on on-site branding.
- The homepage provides distinct pathways for prospective students, graduate applicants, corporate and research partners, alumni, current students, and staff.
- The site links to institutional contact and donation functions within its primary navigation.
- The available evidence classifies the site as an established university/institutional website with no detected red-flag content.
Summary Verdict
The website has a high-trust, low-risk posture and is apparently legitimate on the available evidence. Its institutional purpose, long-running continuity, substantive content, and clean external reputation converge on an established-site assessment, while operator identity remains likely rather than independently verified.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves to infrastructure associated with the Institute of Science Tokyo in Japan, using AS9367 and a single identified IP with no detected CDN or WAF edge layer. Direct institutional hosting provides a coherent infrastructure relationship, while the absence of an intermediary protective layer means that CDN-based mitigation should not be assumed.
Closing Assessment
Normal informational use is proportionate; credentials or payments should be preceded by ordinary independent checks of the relevant institutional channel, counterparty identity, terms, and payment protections.
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 | LIKELY |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 79/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 78% |
- Identity verified on page
- Trusted social count=3
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 titech.ac.jp.
- The request stayed on titech.ac.jp. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by ad.jp, across 3 name servers. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 1997-01-24. Clear
- It is hosted on MICROSOFT-CORP-MSN-AS-BLOCK, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Not available |
|---|---|
| Hosting | MICROSOFT-CORP-MSN-AS-BLOCK - Microsoft Corporation, US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 20.107.116.39 |
| Name servers | ns.fujisawa.wide.ad.jp, titechns2-o.noc.titech.ac.jp, titechns2-s.noc.titech.ac.jp |
| SSL issuer | NII Open Domain CA - G7 RSA |
| SSL expiry | 2026-12-26 |
| Domain age | 29.55 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | Not available |
| Archive first seen | 1997-01-24 |
| 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 titech.ac.jp 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.