Verdict
fx.co appears legitimate.
Our checks found nothing pointing to fraud. Ordinary care still applies when you pay or sign in.
| What this site appears to be | FX.co is an established forex and cryptocurrency market information portal offering analysis, trading signals, news, quotes, charts, educational content, and an economic calendar. The page includes financial risk disclaimers and does not show a login, payment, deposit, or sensitive-data form. |
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Evidence status and limitations
Evidence completeness: UNKNOWN
- Module-level completeness metadata is unavailable for this legacy report.
At a glance
The checks that decide most of this verdict.
| Malware engines | None flagged itVirusTotal | Clear |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 16 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 201310 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA DV R36 | Noted |
The page as captured
No screenshot is retained for this report.
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Domain age: more than 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2013.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
FX.co is an established financial information portal presenting forex and cryptocurrency analysis, trading signals, market news, quotes, charts, educational material, and an economic calendar; its apparent business model is informational audience engagement supported by advertising, cooperation, newsletters, and related services.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed. The site presents coherent financial-news content, includes risk disclaimers, and does not expose login, payment, deposit, or sensitive-data forms. External reputation checks found no malicious or suspicious detections, and no third-party broker match was identified.
- The homepage presents sustained forex, cryptocurrency, market-analysis, and trading-signal content.
- The homepage contains no login, payment, deposit, or sensitive-data form.
- The domain was registered in 2010 and is approximately 16.28 years old.
- Historical records contain 10 snapshots spanning 2013–2020, covering 8 tracked years.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site functions as an information and analysis publisher rather than clearly offering deposit-taking or fund-management services. No license claim or license number is presented in the supplied site evidence, creating a limited disclosure point for any regulated-service interpretation; this is a verification matter, not evidence of deception. The registration is associated with Name.com, Inc., while transport security is provided through a valid Sectigo certificate.
- The site describes itself as a forex traders portal and financial-news service.
- Registrar: Name.com, Inc.; registration expiry: 2027-04-25.
- TLS certificate: Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA DV R36, DV validation, valid to 2027-01-01.
- The site’s observed global traffic footprint is within the top one million websites.
What to Verify Next
If a prospective engagement involves regulated advice, brokerage, or other financial services beyond published information, the relevant legal entity and licensing status should be confirmed directly with the applicable regulator. Standard contact channels and any commercial relationship should also be confirmed through an independently sourced business contact.
- The supplied site evidence does not provide a license authority or license number.
- The stated business model is informational and does not clearly indicate direct management of user funds.
- The site’s legal and commercial disclosures should be assessed against the specific service being considered.
Summary Verdict
FX.co presents as a legitimate, established, and trustworthy financial-information website with no observed scam or impersonation contradictions. Its overall posture supports normal interaction, including account login and standard use where applicable.
Infrastructure Integrity
The website benefits from CDN/WAF protection, which reduces direct exposure of the underlying service and provides a meaningful infrastructure mitigation. Hosting is associated with Hetzner Online GmbH in Germany; this infrastructure supports availability and resilience but is not, by itself, proof of legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Normal use is appropriate, with any regulated or financially consequential engagement limited to services whose legal status and scope have been independently confirmed.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-03 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
No rule findings contributed to this verdict.
Identity verification
| Status | UNVERIFIED |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 30/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 50% |
- No on-site identity signals detected
Identity verification measures whether the site can be independently connected to a real-world brand or person. It is separate from the classification confidence.
What TrustSniffer observed
First-party facts recorded during the assessment of fx.co.
- The request stayed on fx.co. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Name.com, Inc.. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by awsdns-53.com, across 4 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-04-25. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2013-04-03. Clear
- It is hosted on HETZNER-AS, from a server in DE. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Name.com, Inc. |
|---|---|
| Hosting | HETZNER-AS - Hetzner Online GmbH, DE |
| Country | DE |
| Server IP | 94.130.133.142 |
| Name servers | NS-430.AWSDNS-53.COM, NS-1709.AWSDNS-21.CO.UK, NS-628.AWSDNS-14.NET, NS-1206.AWSDNS-22.ORG |
| SSL issuer | Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA DV R36 |
| SSL expiry | 2027-01-01 |
| Domain age | 16.3 years |
| Domain expiry | 2027-04-25 |
| Archive first seen | 2013-04-03 |
| Archive snapshots | 10 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 0 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about fx.co at assessment time. It is a starting point for your own judgement, not a guarantee: a high score means the signals were consistent with a legitimately operated site, a low or critical score means several risk patterns were present.
TrustSniffer assesses a website from the evidence it can collect at a point in time: domain registration and age, hosting and certificate, the content the site served, and third-party reputation feeds. A score is a summary of that evidence, not a guarantee and not a legal finding. There is no human rating and no user review in it. A site can change after it is assessed.