Read this before you use the site
This is the agreement between you and TheDomainCheck. It covers thedomaincheck.com and every page, form and mailing list we run there. Use the site and you accept it. If you do not, close the tab. The version live when you visit applies, and this one is current for 2026.
What this site is for
We investigate online financial fraud. Fake brokers. Imitation crypto exchanges. Trading apps fronting nothing. Investment groups run by people who vanish with your deposit. We publish what we find so the next person searching a name meets a warning instead of a sales page.
That is the whole job. Not a broker, a bank, an exchange or a payment company. Not a regulator, so we shut nobody down. Not a law firm, so we do not act for you. We never hold anyone’s money.
Nothing here is advice
Read this twice, because it matters more than most of what follows. Nothing on thedomaincheck.com is legal advice. Nothing on thedomaincheck.com is financial advice. Nothing is tax or investment advice. It is journalism, for a general audience.
We do not know your situation: your income, your obligations, what you hold, what your contracts say, the rules where you live. So nothing we publish is a personal recommendation, and an article is no substitute for advice from a qualified professional at home.
Emailing contact@thedomaincheck.com does not change that. Writing to us creates no lawyer and client relationship and no advisory relationship at all. We answer questions about what we published and how the site works. We will not tell you what to do about your own case, because we are not qualified and it would be wrong to try.
Opinion, and where our facts come from
Our articles mix reported fact with honest opinion, formed at the time of writing on the material we had. Sources: regulator registers and warning lists, company and court filings, archived operator websites, app store listings, reader accounts.
When we say an operator is not authorised somewhere, that describes a public register on the day we looked. Registers change. Articles date, and we do not promise every page reflects the position today. Where we call something a scam, that is honest opinion, not the finding of a court.
Getting something corrected
We would rather be right than first. If we published something inaccurate about you or a business you speak for, say so.
What to send
- Email contact@thedomaincheck.com with the full address of the page on thedomaincheck.com.
- Quote the exact passage you say is wrong. Do not just call the article wrong.
- Tell us the correct position.
- Attach something that shows it: a licence reference, register entry, filing or court document.
- Say who you are and, if you write for a business, what your authority is.
What we do
Acknowledgement within five working days. We check the point against the sources. If you are right, we correct or remove the passage and add a dated note saying what changed, because quietly editing the record is not honest. If we disagree, we explain why, and will usually publish a short statement of your position alongside.
What we will not do is pull a page because someone sent a threatening letter with no evidence. A correction is not an admission, and the final call on thedomaincheck.com stays with us. To repeat: a corrected article is journalism, not advice to you.
Sending us a report
If you have dealt with one of these operators, tell us. Your account may stop someone else depositing next week.
Sending a report tells us it is true as far as you know, that any document attached is genuine and unaltered, that you may send it, and that publishing it would break no court order or confidentiality obligation.
We are not obliged to publish, investigate or reply, and we get more reports than we can use. We may edit, shorten, anonymise or combine them. Sending yours lets us use its substance in articles, anonymously unless you tell us in writing otherwise.
How the independent legal advisers work
We know independent legal advisers and law firms that help people prepare and file reports to regulators, police and other authorities. Ask, and we can introduce you. Here is exactly what that relationship is.
They are not us
Separate practices with their own offices, insurance and regulators. Not employees, agents, partners or a department of TheDomainCheck. Talking to one of them is not talking to us.
We do not supervise their work
We do not direct what they do, review their files or check their advice, and we learn the outcome only if you tell us. No professional oversight at all. If you are unhappy with a practice, complain to it and to its regulator, not to us.
Check them yourself before you engage anyone
This is your responsibility and we would push you to take it seriously.
- Confirm the practice is registered with the professional body in its country, using that body’s own public register rather than a link the practice sent you.
- Confirm the individual you are speaking to works there.
- Get fee terms in writing first. Fixed fee or hourly rate, what is included.
- Ask what happens to money you pay them and where it is held.
- Ask what they will do, and by when.
- If anything feels rushed or evasive, walk away. People defrauded once get targeted twice, and pressure is the warning sign.
The contract is yours, not ours
Any engagement, retainer or fee agreement is between you and that practice alone. TheDomainCheck is not a party, cannot enforce it, and is not answerable under it. We do not guarantee the quality, speed or result of anything they do.
We may be paid for the introduction
Plainly: where professional rules allow it, TheDomainCheck may receive a fee from a practice for introducing you. We say so because you should weigh it. It does not oblige you to use anyone we suggest, and you may find your own adviser or approach the authorities alone.
Once more: an introduction is not advice from us, and promises no outcome.
How you may and may not use the site
You may read our articles, print them, save them, share links anywhere, quote a short extract with credit to TheDomainCheck and a working link, and send an article to a regulator, bank, police force or adviser. No permission needed.
You may not send false reports or doctored documents, use the site to attack a competitor, or impersonate anyone, us included. No scraping, no republishing articles wholesale, no malware, no poking at our admin areas, no harassing the people who work here, no posting home addresses or identity documents, no advertising, no speaking for TheDomainCheck.
Break these and we block you and remove what you sent. Where it is serious we keep the logs and speak to the police or our lawyers.
Copyright
The words, images, layout and database on thedomaincheck.com belong to TheDomainCheck or whoever licensed them to us. The uses above are the licence you get. Company names and logos in our articles belong to their owners and appear for identification and comment, which means nobody endorses anybody. Want more than a short extract? Ask at contact@thedomaincheck.com.
Where our liability stops
The site comes as it is. We do not promise it is complete, current or free of errors, that it will always be reachable, or that every file served is clean. As far as the law allows, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, lost profit, business or data, nor for anything following a decision you made after reading an article, nor for your dealings with any operator or adviser named on thedomaincheck.com. That point again: the article informed you, it did not advise you. Where liability cannot be excluded it is capped at one hundred units of local currency. Nothing here touches liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or fraud.
Links we publish
We link out a lot, because showing the source is the point. Those sites are not ours, we do not control them, and a link is no endorsement. What happens after you click is between you and them.
Ending your access
We can suspend or withdraw access at any time, and change, move or close any part of TheDomainCheck without notice. The copyright and liability sections, and the warranty you give on sending a report, carry on afterwards.
Which law applies
This agreement is governed by the law where the operator of TheDomainCheck is established, and the courts there have exclusive jurisdiction. If you are a consumer, this removes no protection under the mandatory law of your own country. If a clause turns out unenforceable, the rest stands.
Changes to these terms
We revise this page as the site develops. A revision takes effect when it goes live on thedomaincheck.com, and using the site afterwards means you accept it. Look it over occasionally through 2026. If something does not make sense, email contact@thedomaincheck.com.