Standard Life Share Portal

Nov 16, 2009 3 Replies

Just received a genuine-looking November Dividend email from Standard Life, with links to

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where you can register or check your account. I do have SL shares from when they demutualised.



However the link gives a certificate error so I suspected phishing. But that link also appears on their website at the top of

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What gives?



On further digging it looks like a DNS problem. WHOIS sites report no IP address for the domain name.

I think you should contact the company which issued the dividend. they will sort out everything.

I don't think it's the job of whois to report IP addresses for domains. How about a DNS query?

standardlifeshareportal.com can be whois'd, but fails to be nslookup'd, which I think is in order.

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can be nslookup'd but fails to be whois'd, which I think is also in order.

The security certificate was broken in some way. It looks as though it is now fixed.

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