No threats detected
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Is hoteluniverselrdl.com legit or a scam?
Official 22-year-old site for legitimate Quebec hotel L'Hôtel Universel with clean scans, active registration, and matching tourism listings.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The site presents itself as the official page for a 302-room hotel and conference center in Rivière-du-Loup with real contact numbers, address, and services. The domain is over 22 years old with valid SSL and zero abuse reports on its IP. No scam families, blocklist hits, or complaints appear in our research. Business registration is confirmed active in Quebec and the details match listings on tourism portals and maps. These signals together confirm a long-established legitimate business rather than any fraudulent operation.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for hoteluniverselrdl.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain hoteluniverselrdl.com is the official site for L'Hôtel Universel Rivière-du-Loup, a 302-room hotel and conference center at 311 Boul de l'Hôtel-de-Ville, Rivière-du-Loup, QC G5R 5S4, Canada
- Listed on Quebec tourism portals (quebecmaritime.ca, bonjourquebec.com, tourismeriviereduloup.ca) with phone +1 (800) 265-0072 and +1 (418) 862-9520
- Active social media: Facebook (HotelUniverselCentreDeCongres), Instagram (@universelrdl) with 1.4K+ followers
- Domain age exceeds 22 years (8198 days); no evidence of recent registration or impersonation
- No search results link the domain to scams, phishing, or complaints; general hotel scam discussions unrelated
- Physical address, email (info@hoteluniverselrdl.com), and details consistently match across Booking.com, TripAdvisor, Apple Maps, and Waze
CITQ registration number 054854 listed on multiple tourism sites
Our research found the domain listed as the official site for L'Hôtel Universel Rivière-du-Loup with confirmed CITQ registration. No scam reports, complaints, or negative mentions appeared. Details including address and phones match across Quebec tourism sites, Booking.com, and maps.
Scam Network Intelligence
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.
- Phone number listed (1 800-265-0072).
- Postal address visible on the page.
- Links to 6 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://hoteluniverselrdl.com/
- 2200https://hoteluniverselrdl.com/
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.
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Reputation Sources
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Referenced Domains
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Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered from the scan data on this page. These are auto-generated — not hand-written — so they always match the underlying report.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on hoteluniverselrdl.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- hoteluniverselrdl.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 93/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. hoteluniverselrdl.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · R13, expiring in 39 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- hoteluniverselrdl.com is 22.5 years old, registered on 12/16/2003 through WHC Online Solutions Inc.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. hoteluniverselrdl.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- hoteluniverselrdl.com resolves to an IP operated by OVH Hosting, Inc. in CA (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.
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