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ontario.ca

Category: Government, Legal

Scanned: Sep 29, 2026, 04:58 UTC · First seen: Sep 29, 2026 · Threat Engines: 0 / 91 · Times Scanned: 1
96 / 100 Trust Score Based on scan findings at the time of analysis
No Threats Found
0 - High Risk50 - Moderate100 - No Threats
Fresh scan recommended
Last scanned 21 days ago - security status may have changed since then.
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Screenshot of ontario.ca Captured Sep 29, 2026
https://ontario.ca
Screenshot of ontario.ca
23 years
Very Popular - #7,288 Tranco rank (>10M monthly visitors)
Not listed (91 checked)
✓ Valid (TLS)
AWS EC2 (us-east-1)
Ashburn, United States
Unknown
Unknown
54.208.81.96
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Domain & WHOIS Information
Registrar easyDNS Technologies Inc.
Registered August 7, 2003
Expires August 7, 2027
Name Servers edns2.gov.on.ca
DNSSEC Unsigned
Hosting AWS EC2 (us-east-1)
Reputation & Threat Check 91 security engines checked
File Scan Summary Powered by Quttera Engine
78 files scanned
No threats
78
Low Risk
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www.ontario.ca.http-redirect 80 B No threats
www.googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-KZMGBJD 266 B No threats
www.ontario.ca/user 1.2 KB No threats
www.ontario.ca/# 174.6 KB No threats
designsystem.ontario.ca/scripts/svgxuse.js 3.8 KB No threats
www.ontario.ca/feedback/contact-us?id=7476&nid=540561 210.2 KB No threats
www.ontario.ca/page/about-ontario 110.1 KB No threats
www.ontario.ca/page/education-and-apprenticeships 92.4 KB No threats
www.ontario.ca/page/benefits-and-taxes 97.0 KB No threats
www.ontario.ca/page/rural-agriculture-and-north 95.0 KB No threats
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External Links & Domains
971
External Links
All Clean
1
Iframes
Clean
119
Referenced Domains
1 Flagged
1
Flagged Resources
Detected
rsifeo.org Flagged: Generic Suspicious Object
data.ontario.ca/ Not flagged
guelphwellingtonimmigration.ca/ Not flagged
immigration.bayofquinte.ca/ Not flagged
immigration.london.ca/ Not flagged
immigration.simcoe.ca/ Not flagged
immigrationcornwall.ca/ Not flagged
laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/Const/page-15.html Not flagged
neoimmigration.ca/ Not flagged
news.ontario.ca/ Not flagged
news.ontario.ca/newsroom/en Not flagged
news.ontario.ca/newsroom/fr Not flagged
ontario.ca/511 Not flagged
ontario.ca/accessibility Not flagged
ontario.ca/budget Not flagged
ontario.ca/buildon Not flagged
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Showing first 500 of 971 entries.
rsifeo.org Flagged: Generic Suspicious Object
511on.ca Not flagged
apps.apple.com Not flagged
budget.ontario.ca Not flagged
cxp.mgcs.gov.on.ca Not flagged
data.ontario.ca Not flagged
designsystem.ontario.ca Not flagged
drivetest.ca Not flagged
ero.ontario.ca Not flagged
escarpment.org Not flagged
etablissement.org Not flagged
ffo.ca Not flagged
files.ontario.ca Not flagged
flhsd.health.gov.on.ca Not flagged
forms.mgcs.gov.on.ca Not flagged
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<iframe src%3D"https://www.googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id%3DGTM-KZMGBJD" height%3D"0" width%3D"0" style%3D"display:none%3Bvisibility:hidden"> Not flagged
ontario.ca Overview

Description of ontario.ca

Ontario.ca is the official government portal for the Canadian province of Ontario, operated by the Government of Ontario. The site serves as a central hub for provincial residents, businesses, and visitors to access public services, government news, permits and licensing information, health resources, budget documentation, and other administrative functions.

The homepage shown offers a bilingual entry point (English/Français), consistent with Ontario's status as a bilingual jurisdiction, and links out to a wide range of government sub-domains and affiliated services such as immigration resources, health information (health811.ontario.ca), news releases, and municipal partner sites. This structure is typical of large government portals that aggregate services across multiple departments and agencies.

Given its .ca domain and explicit government branding, this site is categorized by multiple classification providers as a government resource, which aligns with its long-standing registration history and official infrastructure.

Safety Assessment for ontario.ca

Based on available scan data, this domain shows no detections across all 91 security engines checked, and it was not flagged by any content-malice blacklist databases, including phishing and safe-browsing style trackers. A DNS-based mail-reputation blocklist check also returned clean across the five providers checked, indicating no adverse signal there.

A malware scan of the site's files and external references found 78 scanned files with zero flagged, and of 119 referenced domains, one third-party domain (rsifeo.org) was flagged with a generic heuristic label by a single scanning engine. This type of single-vendor, non-specific "suspicious object" tag without a named malware family or corroboration from other engines is a low-confidence signal and is common with heuristic pattern matching on external link references rather than an indication that ontario.ca itself hosts malicious content.

Taking into account the domain's long registration history (over two decades), valid SSL/TLS certificate, government-affiliated infrastructure, and overwhelmingly clean scan results across security engines and blacklist databases, no significant threats were detected at the time of this scan.

Technical Description

The site uses a valid SSL/TLS certificate issued by a recognized certificate authority (DigiCert Inc.), with the certificate valid through April 2027, indicating properly maintained encryption for site visitors. The domain itself is hosted on AWS EC2 infrastructure (us-east-1 region) with servers located in Ashburn, United States, which is a common and reputable cloud hosting arrangement even for government entities. DNSSEC is currently unsigned for this domain, which is a minor configuration gap relative to best practices, though not unusual among many public-sector websites.

WHOIS records show the domain was registered in August 2003 and remains active through an easyDNS Technologies registration, with government-specific nameservers (edns2-4.gov.on.ca) confirming its administrative link to the Government of Ontario. No signs of expired registration, hosting anomalies, or infrastructure red flags were observed.

HTTP Redirect Chain
301 https://ontario.ca/
403 https://www.ontario.ca/
Website Insights
#7,288
Tranco Rank
Very Popular
Visitors >10M/mo
Category: Government, Legal
Rank History (30 days)
Aug 24 Sep 28
13 cookies detected
Essential13
Analytics0
Advertising0
Social0
13 1st party cookies
0 3rd party (trackers)
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