Is esa.int legit or a scam?
Official website of the European Space Agency (ESA), a globally recognized intergovernmental organization with a 30-year domain history and perfect security reputation.
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 has been active for nearly 30 years and is the verified home of the European Space Agency. Our antivirus network shows zero detections across more than 90 security engines. The site holds a valid organization-validated SSL certificate and is recognized by major international bodies as the authoritative source for European space missions. While historical data mentions minor security breaches on subdomains years ago, the core domain remains a high-trust entity. Global traffic rankings and independent factual reporting scores confirm its legitimacy.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for esa.int, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- esa.int is the official website of the European Space Agency (ESA), an intergovernmental organization with 23 member states and headquarters in Paris, France.
- ESA was established by a convention signed in 1975 and entered into force in 1980; it holds international legal personality under public international law.
- The domain is explicitly listed in Wikipedia's catalog of organizations with .int domains reserved for international treaty-based organizations.
- Past security incidents include a 2015 breach by Anonymous on subdomains (leaking credentials) and a reported 2025 server data breach; ESA maintains dedicated pages for reporting fraud, suspicious activity, and cyber resilience (esacert@esa
- No scam reports, phishing complaints, or negative reviews targeting esa.int itself were found; searches for scam/fraud/phishing returned only ESA's own anti-fraud policies and historical breach reports.
- Rated Pro-Science with Very High factual reporting by Media Bias Fact Check; widely referenced as the authoritative source for European space news and missions.
- Domain age of ~30 years (10896 days) aligns with long-established official intergovernmental entity.
- Bitdefenderopen
"Hackers operating under the banner of Anonymous have seemingly breached the due.esrin.esa.int, exploration.esa.int, and sci.esa.int ESA"
- Media Bias Fact Checkopen
"Overall, we rate The European Space Agency (ESA) as Pro-Science based on publishing evidence-based information and Very High for factual reporting"
- Wikipediaopen
"The European Space Agency is a 23-member international organisation devoted to space exploration. ... Website esa.int"
Intergovernmental organization established by the ESA Convention (opened for signature 30 May 1975, entered into force 30 October 1980); has international legal personality; headquarters in Paris; listed as .int domain holder for international organizations
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 contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
- Phone number listed (31692666).
- Links to 6 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://esa.int/
- 2301https://esa.int/
- 3200https://www.esa.int/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 esa.int and not a lookalike like e-sa.int.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
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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 esa.int. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- esa.int 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. esa.int presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Sectigo Limited · Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA OV R36, expiring in 190 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- esa.int is 29.9 years old, registered on 8/22/1996. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report esa.int as clean.
- No. esa.int is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- esa.int resolves to an IP operated by Atanar-Technologies www.atanar.com in FR (usage type: Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit). 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. esa.int 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.
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