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mitnse.com was registered just two days ago? With no track record what is the credibility of this site?

From whois:

   Registered through: Automattic
   Domain Name: MITNSE.COM
      Created on: 13-Mar-11
      Expires on: 13-Mar-12
      Last Updated on: 13-Mar-11

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You left out:

  Registrant:
   MIT Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
   77 Massachusetts Avenue
   Cambridge
   Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
   United States

and:

   Administrative Contact:
      Subbiah, Ilavenil  subbiah@mit.edu
      MIT Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
      77 Massachusetts Avenue
      Cambridge
      Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
      United States
      617-576-0593      Fax --

Edit: fixed formatting

mitnse.com is linked to from http://web.mit.edu/nse/.

I imagine it would be either hard to fake that or it'd be noticed quickly if a MIT department's website was hacked.

On the about page, they also state that its linked and that they registered a new domain because they wanted to host on wordpress.com instead of dealing with large traffic themselves and apparently wordpress.com won't work on a sub-domain (or something along those lines).