Why do brokers change the domain names of their websites, and is it worth paying attention to?
The broker's website is an important component of modern exchange trading; through it, the account is replenished and profits are withdrawn, as well as new accounts are opened.
Almost every day you have to log into a trader’s personal account in order to perform the necessary manipulations or use the available tools.
In this case, an unpleasant surprise is the change in the name of the site in the address bar, although I entered the site using an old bookmark in the browser.
Many traders are alarmed by this change, and they ask a logical question: Why do stock brokers change the domain names of their websites and what could this mean for the trader?
A fake site - there are times when attackers create a full copy of the original site. And you, going to such a site, tell them your username and password.
Usually, in this case, in the name of the domain, one letter changes as a result of Forex.com. Forx.com turns here to be just careful and pay attention to the address line:
Now the companies' sites are protected by the HTTPS with a protocol and the transition to HTTP should alert in addition to a fake site more often from search engines or links received by e -mail.
The expansion of the list of services - the company began to provide a wider spector of services and therefore decided to change the domain name.
For example, it was AFOREX became Amarkets Broker, I began providing trading services in the stock and commodity markets. There is nothing alarming and you can calmly continue to work.
For search engines - often brokers to improve the visibility of your site in search engines resort to a change in their name.
A change in the neutral name, for example, market-group.com at Market-group.Forex immediately attributes the site to a certain category of financial services.
Bypassing blocking is no secret that to provide financial services related to exchange trading requires a license of the country in which these services are provided.
But if the company already has several licenses for its activities, it does not always want to receive the next in a particular country. Moreover, the provision of online services is quite controversial, whether they are provided in the territory of the country in which the client or the country where the company is located is located.
Therefore, brokers cooperate with clients from those countries in which they have no license, for which the overseas organs of these countries block their sites. And brokers safely switch to new domains.
In this case, you should not worry also, because you go to a new site automatically through a radict from an old domain. And the broker guarantee is his license, and often insurance received in another country.
It acts almost the same principle as if you opened an account with a foreign bank, and did not inform the leadership of your country.