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Common questions
Is michigan.org legit or a scam?
AboutUs doesn't label sites "legit" or "a scam": this page lists the dated registration, DNS, HTTPS, mail-authentication and safety checks we could verify, each with its source, so you can decide for yourself.
Who owns michigan.org?
Nobody has completed AboutUs's owner verification for michigan.org. That's true of most sites here — it isn't itself a warning sign.
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3 of 4 safety checks passed (Oct 16, 2026).
Registered 1997 · site answered with HTTP 403
Michigan.org Is the official travel and tourism site of Michigan.
Michigan.org is the official travel and tourism website for the State of Michigan, operated by Travel Michigan, an agency housed within the Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC). It serves as a comprehensive visitor information resource for travelers, collaborating with the state's Destination Marketing Organizations to promote Michigan destinations, events, and attractions. The MEDC, formed in 1999, is headquartered in Lansing, Michigan.
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Page metadata (passed)
Security headers (passed)
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Current facts
Latest available measurements; dated entries retain their dates. These are measurements, not an endorsement of the site.
latest result
Michigan Economic Development Corporation — company name on record since 2006; still matches the live site.
latest result
Domain registered Jul 14, 1997 — 29 years old.
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Registrar on record: Network Solutions, LLC — unchanged since AboutUs began tracking (Jul 31, 2026).
We withhold an authority number until independent evidence (global rank, link-graph presence) has accrued. The facts we do have about this site are shown below — we'd rather say “not enough signals yet” than invent a low score.
Safety evidence
No unexpired threat-feed result; name-similarity check available (recorded about 56 days ago); 3/3 transport and email checks available (oldest recorded about 56 days ago). This is evidence coverage, not a probability that a website is safe.
No caution flags in the available scoring observations; this is not a complete safety assessment
Site history
Dated record — historical facts always carry their date; self-description below is the 2013 record.
1997
Domain registered (Jul 14, 1997).
2006
First tracked by AboutUs (Jun 21, 2006); profile edited 2 times through 2013.
2013
Self-description at the time:
“Michigan.org Is the official travel and tourism site of Michigan.”