Is cnr.it legit or a scam?
Official website of Italy's largest public research institution, established in 1923 and holding the country's first registered domain.
Analysis Summary
No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
MT Intelligence
The domain is the official digital home of the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), a major public research body under the Italian Ministry of University and Research. Our analysis confirms it was the first .it domain ever registered, dating back to 1987. The site carries a valid SSL certificate issued by a trusted academic authority and shows no malicious detections across 92 antivirus engines. All technical signals, including the hosting IP reputation and institutional contact details, align with a legitimate government-affiliated entity. There are no indicators of fraud, phishing, or deceptive practices.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for cnr.it, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Official website of Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Italy's largest public research institution, founded November 18, 1923, headquartered in Rome at Piazzale Aldo Moro 7.
- CNR is an ente pubblico di ricerca under the Ministry of University and Research, with ~8,266 employees (5,519 researchers/technologists as of Jan 2026).
- Domain cnr.it is the first Italian internet domain, registered by CNR on December 23, 1987; it hosts the .it Registry via IIT-CNR.
- Page content matches official government-linked research body: recent news on budget surplus, scientific projects, 5x1000 donations, events; includes institutional PEC and tax IDs.
- No scam reports, fraud complaints, or negative reviews found across searches for "cnr.it scam", "truffa", complaints, or similar terms.
- Tax IDs (CF 80054330586, P.IVA 02118311006) confirmed on official site and in public records; subject to split payment as a public entity.
- One 2024 spam.org registry complaint about a non-subscribed email from the domain (auto-resolved); unrelated to fraud or impersonation.
Public research institution (Ente pubblico di ricerca) under the Ministry of University and Research. Codice Fiscale 80054330586, Partita IVA 02118311006. Registered at Piazzale Aldo Moro 7, 00185 Roma. Listed in official Italian registries and Wikipedia as Italy's largest public research body (foun
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Contact Verification
We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.
- No postal address visible on the page.
- Contact email on the site's own domain (protocollo-ammcen@pec.cnr.it).
- Phone number listed (2014-2020).
- Links to 5 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1302http://cnr.it/
- 2200https://www.cnr.it//cross-domain
Server Reputation
Still, stay alert
No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.
- Double-check the exact URL in your address bar
Confirm you are actually on cnr.it and not a lookalike like c-nr.it.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
Password managers only auto-fill on the exact domain they were saved for — they refuse to fill lookalike domains, which is the single best phishing defence.
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Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
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Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on cnr.it. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- cnr.it passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 97/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. cnr.it presents a valid TLSv1.2 certificate issued by Hellenic Academic and Research Institutions CA · GEANT TLS RSA 1, expiring in 142 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report cnr.it as clean.
- No. cnr.it is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- cnr.it resolves to an IP operated by Sede Centrale ed Istituti di Roma in IT (usage type: University/College/School). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
- Yes. cnr.it sits in the global top-100k on Cloudflare Radar, which means it has substantial real-world traffic. That does not automatically make it safe, but established brands almost always rank here and throwaway scam domains almost never do.
- This is a permanent record of the scan run on July 2, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around cnr.it have changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan, which re-runs every check from scratch and publishes an updated report.
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