Verdict up front: Cyprus’s regulator ended this one in April 2016 — and the CySEC register still names www.skyfx.com as an approved domain of a licence marked Withdrawn. What should worry you is what happened next: the domain lapsed, was registered again from scratch in June 2024, and today points at a page offering the name for sale. A blacklisted broker brand is now simply stock.
Verified evidence (checked 8 September 2026)
- The licence is withdrawn, on the regulator’s own register. CySEC’s entry for Trademarker (Cyprus) Ltd, filed under Former Investment Firms (Cypriot), shows licence number 151/11 (Withdrawn), licence date 08/08/2011 and date of termination 25/04/2016. Company registration number 282594, registered in Limassol. We read this page directly.
- CySEC ties the domain to that dead licence itself. The same register entry lists, under Approved Domains: www.skyfx.com; www.capitaloption.com. This is not a review site’s inference — the regulator’s record connects the brand to the firm whose authorisation it terminated.
- The FPA blacklists the brand. Forex Peace Army carries SkyFX on its published scam list, with guilty Traders Court verdicts against companies it links to Trademarker and client reports of blocked withdrawals. The FPA also states CySEC ordered client funds returned; we did not find that instruction on CySEC’s own record and are not repeating it as verified.
- The domain died and was re-born eight years later. skyfx.com now shows a creation date of 6 June 2024 (registrar Dynadot), last updated 18 August 2026 and paid to June 2027. A 2024 creation date on a brand licensed in 2011 means the original registration lapsed and the name was picked up again by someone.
- Right now it is merchandise. On 8 September 2026 skyfx.com redirected to a GoDaddy for sale listing for the domain. Anyone can buy it, and whatever they build there inherits a decade of search results, reviews and forum threads about a licensed broker. Sources: CySEC register entry for Trademarker (Cyprus) Ltd; Verisign .com registry record; the live redirect from skyfx.com; Forex Peace Army scam listing — all read 8 September 2026.
| Related Investigation The licence status and the approved-domain listing come from CySEC’s own register, read directly, not from press coverage. |
Investors, Take Note A licence number proves nothing until you read its status. Withdrawn licences keep their numbers forever. |
Read This Before You Invest Old reviews attach to a domain, not to a company. New owner, same URL, same five-star history. |
What was SkyFX?
A retail forex and CFD brand operated under the CySEC licence of Trademarker (Cyprus) Ltd, authorised in August 2011 and permitted to passport services across the EU. CySEC’s record lists skyfx.com and capitaloption.com as its approved domains. The authorisation was terminated on 25 April 2016.
The afterlife is the real risk
Most warning articles end at the collapse. This one starts there, because a dead brand is worth money. A decade of coverage, complaints, comparison pages and forum arguments all point at one string of characters, and search engines keep sending people to it long after the company is gone. Buy the string, buy the traffic.
The person arriving is often the worst-informed visitor imaginable: someone half-remembering the name, or a former account holder searching for what happened to their money. A recovery-fee pitch placed there would meet exactly the audience it wants. We are not saying that is what the current registrant intends — we do not know who they are. We are saying the name is on sale and the traffic is real.
What we could not verify
We could not identify the current registrant, and we suggest no link between whoever holds skyfx.com today and Trademarker (Cyprus) Ltd. We did not confirm the FPA’s statement that client funds were ordered returned, nor the allegations attached to the brand’s former operators; those stay with the FPA. What we verified is narrow and hard: licence status, termination date, approved-domain listing, the 2024 creation date and today’s for-sale redirect.
Check it for yourself
Nothing above depends on trusting us. Search the name on Google, ask ChatGPT, and run the register checks named in the evidence box. A regulator warning takes about a minute to confirm on the regulator’s own website, and that minute is the cheapest due diligence available to any investor.
For this brand specifically: open cysec.gov.cy, search the register for Trademarker (Cyprus) Ltd and read two fields — licence status and date of termination. Then check the domain’s creation date. Two free lookups, both conclusive.
If you have already deposited
Act on paper, not on hope. Save every screenshot, chat log, email, payment reference and wallet address before the platform can close your account — once access goes, so does your evidence. Report the loss to your national financial regulator and to your police force’s fraud unit. Tell your bank or card issuer immediately; where funds moved by card or transfer within recent weeks, a recall or chargeback is sometimes still possible. If you paid in cryptocurrency, the transaction cannot be reversed, but the receiving address is permanent evidence and exchanges can sometimes freeze onward movement.
Then brace for the second approach. Victims of investment fraud are frequently contacted again by people offering to recover the money for an upfront fee, sometimes posing as lawyers, regulators or the platform’s own compliance department. That is a second fraud aimed at the same victim. No legitimate recovery service, and no regulator anywhere, asks for a payment before returning your funds.
The bottom line
CySEC terminated the licence behind SkyFX on 25 April 2016 and still lists skyfx.com as one of that firm’s approved domains. The domain itself was re-registered in 2024 and is currently for sale. If anything appears at that address tomorrow calling itself SkyFX, it will not be the licensed firm — that firm’s authorisation ended a decade ago.
Reviewed by Jenny Loral, Licensed Fraud Investigation Agent, Investor Protection Unit — Pinkerton. Corrections: support@reclaimdc.com.
