Verdict
ulsterbank.co.uk 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 | Ulster Bank homepage promoting personal and business banking products, financial tools, support resources, fraud guidance, mobile banking, and community initiatives. The page identifies Ulster Bank as a business name of National Westminster Bank Plc and references regulatory and consumer-protection information. |
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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 | 30 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2004468 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA OV R36 | 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 2004.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
Ulster Bank is a retail and business banking website presenting bank accounts, savings, mortgages, loans, cards, insurance, financial tools, support resources, fraud guidance, mobile banking, and community initiatives. Its apparent purpose is to provide established banking services and customer self-service capabilities.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions, phishing indicators, brand-impersonation signals, or malicious reputation findings were observed. The homepage presents a coherent banking identity, while the domain’s long registration history and sustained archival presence support continuity rather than opportunistic use.
- The homepage identifies Ulster Bank as a banking service and contains no reported fraud or impersonation indicators.
- External reputation checks recorded zero malicious and zero suspicious detections, with no phishing or blacklist finding.
- The domain registration record shows registration in 1996 and an age of approximately 30.02 years.
- Historical records contain 468 archive snapshots spanning 2004–2026, with 23 years tracked.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site identifies Ulster Bank as a business name of National Westminster Bank Plc and references regulatory and consumer-protection information. The homepage describes conventional banking products—deposits, lending, mortgages, cards, insurance, and savings—consistent with an established financial-services model. No specific license number was identified in the supplied page evidence, so licensing details remain a transparency item for confirmation rather than an indication of misconduct.
- The homepage names National Westminster Bank Plc as the legal entity associated with the Ulster Bank business name.
- The domain record names CSC Corporate Domains, Inc. as registrar.
- Hosting resolves to AS8075, Microsoft Corporation, US.
- The TLS certificate is issued by Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA OV R36, uses OV validation, identifies Natwest Group Plc, and is valid through 2027-01-22.
What to Verify Next
Confirm the applicable regulatory permissions and entity details through the relevant official financial-services registry, and confirm customer-support and account-access channels through independently sourced institutional contact information.
- The homepage provides regulatory and consumer-protection references suitable for cross-checking against official records.
- The site provides dedicated support, fraud-guidance, and account-management resources for channel verification.
Summary Verdict
The website presents as a legitimate, established, and trustworthy banking institution with strong identity, content, technical, historical, and reputation convergence. Normal interaction, including account login and standard banking use, is appropriate.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is protected by CDN/WAF infrastructure, with observed edge addresses hosted on Microsoft’s AS8075; the origin server was not observable. This architecture is a mitigating security-control signal that reduces direct origin exposure, but it is not by itself proof of legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Standard banking interaction is appropriate, subject to the institution’s normal authentication, transaction, and account-security procedures.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-02 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 ulsterbank.co.uk.
- The request stayed on ulsterbank.co.uk. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under CSC Corporate Domains, Inc [Tag = CSC-CORP-DOMAINS]. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by cscdns.net, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2026-11-16. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2004-09-20. Clear
- It is hosted on MICROSOFT-CORP-MSN-AS-BLOCK, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | CSC Corporate Domains, Inc [Tag = CSC-CORP-DOMAINS] |
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| Hosting | MICROSOFT-CORP-MSN-AS-BLOCK - Microsoft Corporation, US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 2603:1061:14:c1::1 |
| Name servers | udns1.cscdns.net, udns2.cscdns.uk |
| SSL issuer | Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA OV R36 |
| SSL expiry | 2027-01-22 |
| Domain age | 30.0 years |
| Domain expiry | 2026-11-16 |
| Archive first seen | 2004-09-20 |
| Archive snapshots | 468 |
| 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 ulsterbank.co.uk 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.