The FCA’s warning about Delta-Stock names three websites, not one. Two of them are now dead. The third is for sale.
Three domains, one notice
The notice is titled simply Delta-Stock and was published on 22 May 2024. We read it on 12 September 2026. What is unusual is the website field, which lists three addresses where a warning normally lists one:
- https://delta-stock.net/
- https://delta-stock.com/
- www.deltastock.io
The only other detail recorded is an email address, support@delta-stock.net. No telephone number. No postal address of any kind.
Look at the shape of those three. A hyphen inserted into a word, then the same hyphenated name on a different extension, then the unhyphenated name on a third. They are not three businesses. They are one name spread across the near-misses a person might type or click.
Why an operation registers spares
Registering three domains costs very little, and it buys two things.
The first is redundancy. When one domain is reported, suspended or abandoned, the operation continues on the next without rebuilding anything. We have seen this pattern before: a warning that names one site while another quietly keeps running is the normal shape of these things, not the exception.
The second is coverage. Someone who half-remembers a name and types it with or without the hyphen lands in the same place either way.
It also means a regulator’s warning about one address does not retire the others. That is exactly why the FCA listed all three on a single notice — and why reading only the first line of a warning is not enough.
Where the three domains stand today
We checked all three on 12 September 2026.
- delta-stock.net — no DNS record. Dead.
- deltastock.io — no DNS record. Dead.
- delta-stock.com — alive, and redirecting to a GoDaddy sales page that reads “This domain is registered, but may still be available.” There is a Get this domain button where the platform used to be.
That last one is worth sitting with. The domain named on an FCA warning is now being offered to whoever wants to buy it. Anyone who does inherits the name, the search results and any residual traffic from people still looking for it — including former customers.
The name belongs to somebody else too
There is a separate, long-established business at deltastock.com — no hyphen, .com. It resolves normally today.
The FCA notice does not mention deltastock.com. It names delta-stock.net, delta-stock.com and deltastock.io, and nothing else. We are not suggesting any connection between them, and readers should not infer one.
This matters both ways round. Someone who sees “Delta-Stock” on a warning list may wrongly avoid an unconnected firm; someone who knows the unconnected firm is real may wrongly dismiss the warning. The only safe reading is the literal one: a warning attaches to the exact domains written on it.
What kind of notice this is
Worth stating plainly, because it is often reported wrongly. This is not a clone notice. The word “clone” appears nowhere on it, and the FCA does not name any authorised firm as being impersonated. It is the FCA’s plain unauthorised-firm warning: “This firm may be providing or promoting financial services or products without our permission.”
Verified evidence — checked 12 September 2026
- FCA warning “Delta-Stock”, published 22 May 2024.
- Websites listed — three: https://delta-stock.net/, https://delta-stock.com/, www.deltastock.io
- Email listed: support@delta-stock.net. No telephone number and no address recorded.
- delta-stock.net — no DNS record. deltastock.io — no DNS record.
- delta-stock.com resolves and now serves a GoDaddy sales page — “This domain is registered, but may still be available.”
- A plain unauthorised-firm warning — the word “clone” does not appear and no genuine firm is named.
- deltastock.com (no hyphen) resolves and is not mentioned on the notice.
- Dealing with an unauthorised firm means no Financial Ombudsman Service access and no FSCS protection.
Our verdict
Read the whole website field on a warning, not the first address in it. If a regulator has listed several domains against one name, it is telling you the operation was built to survive losing one — and the surviving spares are where the next approach will come from.
Then check the punctuation. A hyphen, a missing letter or a different extension is the cheapest disguise available, and it is the one most often used against firms with a name worth borrowing. Copy the domain from the regulator’s own register rather than typing it from memory, and compare it character by character with the site you are on.
If you sent money to any of the three domains named on this notice, tell your bank today and report it to Action Fraud. You have no Ombudsman access and no FSCS cover, so the only advantage left is speed.
Sources: FCA warning notice “Delta-Stock”, fca.org.uk/news/warnings, published 22 May 2024, read 12 September 2026; DNS resolution checks of delta-stock.net, delta-stock.com, deltastock.io and deltastock.com, 12 September 2026; delta-stock.com loaded 12 September 2026 (redirects to forsale.godaddy.com).
