Legitimacy of "US Dept of Edu Student Information Center"

[FrHaseKopf]

Hi, 
asking for a friend (international student outside US) . So she plans to finish an online degree but not sure how the companies in her country could verify US degrees. As I know, companies normally ask you to send a transcript from the university, or you give them a certified degree copy. But then she came across some website, like:

"National Student ClearingHouse" 
https://nscverifications.org/degreeverify/

"US Dept. of Edu Student Information Center" 
https://a.edgovsc.org/

Are these websites/institutions even legit? Is this actually a thing in the US?  what do you think? 
Especially the second one looks phishy...

[url=https://www.studentclearinghouse.org/colleges/degreeverify/][/url]