No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is ubc.ca legit or a scam?
Official University of British Columbia homepage with a 25-year domain age, zero security flags, and confirmed branding across independent sources.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The page presents as the main site for a major Canadian public university with matching title, description, and campus content. Domain registration dates back 9375 days with valid SSL from Amazon and zero abuse reports on the hosting IP. Our antivirus network returned clean results with no detections from any engine. Evidence confirms the domain as the verified official site listed on Wikipedia and university references, with two positive reviews and no scam reports or complaints located. The combination of extreme domain age, clean infrastructure signals, and direct branding matches leaves no room for doubt about legitimacy.
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 ubc.ca, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- ubc.ca is the official homepage of The University of British Columbia (public research university in Vancouver/Kelowna, BC, Canada)
- Wikipedia lists ubc.ca as the official website; consistently described as top-ranked public university
- University operates privacymatters.ubc.ca with multiple pages on reporting phishing and compromised accounts
- Reddit r/UBC threads discuss phishing emails sent to @ubc.ca addresses but confirm domain legitimacy
- Domain age listed as 9375 days (~25.6 years); page title/description match official university branding
- No search results indicate ubc.ca itself is fraudulent, cloned, or a typosquat of any brand
Our research found no scam reports or complaints about ubc.ca. Two positive reviews on independent sites describe strong academic experiences and confirm the domain as the official University of British Columbia homepage. Wikipedia and university references list ubc.ca as the verified site with no clone or impersonation indicators.
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 phone number listed on the page.
- Postal address visible on the page.
- Links to 12 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://ubc.ca/
- 2200https://www.ubc.ca/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 ubc.ca and not a lookalike like u-bc.ca.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.
- OpenDiscuss this site on the forum
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Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
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 ubc.ca. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- ubc.ca passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 92/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. ubc.ca presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Amazon · Amazon RSA 2048 M01, expiring in 129 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- ubc.ca is 25.7 years old, registered on 10/5/2000 through Webnames.ca Inc.. 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 ubc.ca as clean.
- No. ubc.ca is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- ubc.ca resolves to an IP operated by Amazon Technologies Inc. in US (usage type: Content Delivery Network). 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.
- We cache results for 24 hours. Signed-in MalwareTips members can trigger a manual rescan at any time using the "Rescan" button on the report page, which re-runs every check from scratch and refreshes this page.
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