Following multiple regulatory fraud warnings, Crytpex’s website domain was seized earlier this month.

As tracked by BehindMLM readers, Cryptex’s “cryptex.to” domain was seized on or around Thursday, October 9th.

WHOIS records reveal NameCheap, Cryptex’s domain registrar, changed the domain’s nameservers to abuse placeholders:

This broke DNS and rendered Cryptex’s website inaccessible.

One of the reasons NameCheap cites for domain seizure is participation in fraud and scamming. Unverifiable domain ownership details is another reason.

Upon seizure, Cryptex’s admin would have been immediately notified via email.

Instead of being honest about its website domain being seized, on October 9th Cryptex sent out an email claiming 24-48 hours of “data security enhancement”.

Attention: Data security enhancement

Please be advised that our data center maintenance team will be updating all server databases with new security measures affecting our data center.

The maintenance details are as follows:

Maintenance Date: October 9, 2025

Maintenance Downtime: 24-48 hours

Maintenance Window: 18 hours

On October 10th, Cryptex informed investors “encrypting all data can only be done offline, which is why all servers are offline.”

Various ruses carried through the weekend, wherein Cryptex’s admin(s) no doubt tried to rectify the seizure with NameCheap (this to date hasn’t been disclosed to investors).

On October 12th I predicted that, unless Cryptex was able to fool NameCheap, they’d spin up a new domain this week.

By October 14th it was pretty obvious that Cryptex had failed to fool NameCheap. For whatever reason, NameCheap was not releasing Cryptex’s domain.

On October 15th, Cryptex announced it would be rebooting as Bytnex. To that end the domains “bytnex.io” and “secure-bytnex.io” were registered on October 13th, 2025.

From this date we can assume NameCheap informed Cryptex it would not be releasing the “cryptex.to” domain either on Sunday the 12th or Monday the 13th.

This prompted Cryptex to register the Bytnex domains on Monday. Any updates provided between Monday and Wednesday were a baloney ruse while Cryptex scrambled to transfer rebranded Bytnex hosting over.

Tellingly, Cryptex’s Bytnex domains are not registered through NameCheap. Instead the Ponzi scheme has gone with TLD Registrar Solutions.

Both NameCheap and TLD Registrar Solutions are ICANN accredited. It’s unclear whether this means NameCheap will share why they seized Cryptex’s website domain with TLD Registrar Solutions.

This could lead to TLD Registrar Solutions take action against Cryptex’s new Bytnex domains.

Cryptex and now Bytnex are MLM crypto Ponzis that are believed to have ties to Europe. This is based on Cryptex’s early targeting of Germany and Austria.

As of September 2025, SimilarWeb was tracking ~330,000 monthly visits to Cryptex’s website.

Top sources of Cryptex website traffic are currently the US (33%), Germany (15%), Canada (8%), Switzerland (8%%) and Hungary (5%).

Several BehindMLM readers are actively tracking Cryptex and Bytnex developments. Stay tuned for updates in the comments below.

 

Update 17th October 2025 – As at the time of this update Cryptex’s Bytnex domains have been disabled.

“Bytnex.io” was disabled at the DNS level by the registrar Public Domain Registry on October 16th.

It’s unclear whether TLD Registrar Solutions took action prior to the switch to Public Domain Registry.

“Secure-bytnex.io” now redirects to “cryptex.to”, which remains disabled as per the October 9th NameCheap seizure.