Verdict
univ-lyon1.fr 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 site for Lyon 1 Université Claude Bernard offering news, research highlights, program listings, campus information and student services. |
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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 | 32 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Never archivedNo public history of this site | Watch |
| 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).
- 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
The website presents itself as Lyon 1 Université Claude Bernard, a public university portal providing information on faculties, degree programmes, research, admissions, campus services, student resources, and institutional contacts. Its apparent purpose is informational and educational rather than commercial, with sustainability derived from public funding, tuition, research grants, and partnerships rather than direct online transactions.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed. The homepage presents a coherent university and public-service model, with academic departments, research resources, student portals, admissions information, directories, and campus-access details rather than investment offers, cryptocurrency activity, or unusual payment requests. The captured behaviour also showed no login form, sensitive form, wallet interaction, external posting, or suspected brand impersonation. External reputation checks returned no malicious or suspicious detections, and the available traffic footprint is consistent with an established public institution. The site is therefore apparently legitimate on the evidence supplied, although the real-world operator identity has not been independently verified.
- The homepage identifies “Lyon 1 Université Claude Bernard” and links to faculties, research entities, student services, admissions, directories, and campus information.
- The domain was registered on 1994-12-31 and is 31.65 years old.
- The site has global traffic rank 15625 and is within the top 1 million sites.
- External checks recorded 0 malicious detections, 0 suspicious detections, and no phishing or blacklist hit.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The observed site is an educational and institutional information service, not a financial provider or marketplace, and no regulated financial activity or licensing claim is presented in the supplied content. The university identity is clearly presented on the homepage, but independent verification of the real-world operator remains incomplete; the on-page disclosure record should therefore be treated as an identity-confirmation matter rather than proof of legal status. No third-party broker match or adverse reputational signal was identified. If the site is used for any activity outside ordinary university information and services, the applicable institutional or regulatory basis should be confirmed separately.
- The homepage is classified as a university/institutional information page and describes education, research, campus life, admissions, and partnerships.
- Domain registration is through GIP RENATER.
- The site is hosted by FR-RENATER - Renater, EU, on AS2060.
- Its TLS certificate is issued by GEANT TLS RSA 1, uses OV validation, identifies UNIVERSITE CLAUDE BERNARD LYON 1, and is valid to 2026-10-11.
What to Verify Next
Before credential or payment interactions, an independent check should confirm that the relevant institutional contact details and service destination correspond to Lyon 1’s independently published channels. Where a transaction is contemplated, the applicable terms, refund arrangements, and payment protections should be reviewed through an independently obtained institutional route. Any request that falls outside normal university admissions, education, research, or campus-service activity should receive separate confirmation from the responsible institution.
- The homepage provides an institutional directory, directions and access information, admissions resources, and student and staff portals.
- The captured homepage contained no sensitive form and no untrusted form destination.
- The observed business model is informational and education-focused, with no direct online transaction model identified.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is high trust and low risk, with the available evidence consistent with an established, apparently legitimate university website. No scam, phishing, impersonation, or other contradictory signal was observed, while independent operator identity verification remains unresolved.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves directly to a single likely origin address hosted by FR-RENATER - Renater, EU, with no CDN or WAF identified in the supplied infrastructure evidence. This provides a straightforward hosting posture but should be regarded as infrastructure context, not as proof of institutional legitimacy.
- Infrastructure resolution identified 1 unique IP address, 0 edge IPs, and 1 likely origin IP.
- No CDN was detected.
- No WAF vendor was detected.
Closing Assessment
Normal informational use is proportionate to the assessed posture; credentials or payments should follow ordinary independent identity, terms, and payment-protection checks before completion.
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 univ-lyon1.fr.
- The request stayed on univ-lyon1.fr. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under GIP RENATER. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by in2p3.fr, across 4 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2026-12-31. Noted
- It is hosted on FR-RENATER, from a server in FR. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | GIP RENATER |
|---|---|
| Hosting | FR-RENATER - Renater, EU |
| Country | FR |
| Server IP | 134.214.126.59 |
| Name servers | ccpntc3.in2p3.fr, ccpnvx.in2p3.fr, dns.univ-lyon1.fr, dns2.univ-lyon1.fr |
| SSL issuer | GEANT TLS RSA 1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-11 |
| Domain age | 31.65 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2026-12-31 |
| 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 univ-lyon1.fr 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.