How this site's figures are produced

We describe what registers and regulators publish and when they published it. This page explains the sources, the reading schedule, and what the records cannot show.

What the commodity exchange list covers

The broker table on the commodity exchange page is read from the list of brokers the Pakistan Mercantile Exchange publishes for its traders. The list is read once a week, and each row records what the source published at that reading: the broker's name exactly as written, the date the source published it, the broker category shown, and a link to the original. A row is the regulator's act, not a finding of this site. A broker listed there has a relationship with that exchange, but the list does not imply authority over overseas gold or forex offers, and a missing name means only that the name was absent from that week's list.

The exchange trades commodity contracts, and its list of brokers is specific to that exchange. A broker's registration with the exchange covers dealing on that exchange only. The list does not state whether a broker may handle foreign exchange, crypto, or investment products outside the exchange's own contracts. When a reader meets an offer for gold or forex-style trading, the commodity exchange list is one check among several, not a licence for that offer.

How domain dates are obtained

Domain creation dates are read from public registration data when a domain is first added to the site and rechecked monthly. The date shown is the one published by the registry or registrar at the time of reading. Registration data can be hidden by privacy services, and a date can change when a domain is transferred, so the same domain may show a different figure on a later reading. This site records the figure it read, not a judgment that the figure is accurate or complete.

A domain's creation date says when the name was first registered, not when the current website appeared, not who operates it, and not where the business runs from. A newly created domain can be attached to an old company, and an old domain can be repurposed. The domain age table sits above the page text and quotes no figure and no name in prose; the table itself carries the arithmetic.

Why the legal pages are written as questions to ask official bodies

The legal pages describe the roles of the State Bank of Pakistan and the SECP in general terms and point to their own pages. The law on virtual assets has been changing, and a new authority may have been set up, so this site does not assert which law or authority is in force, any date, or whether any venue is permitted. A reader should check the State Bank, the SECP and any virtual-assets authority on their own pages for the present position.

The pages are written as questions to ask a venue: what is its legal entity, which regulator is it answerable to at home, and what is the complaint route if something goes wrong. These are questions a regulator's own register can answer, and they are safer than a statement this site could make today and have to retract tomorrow. The same caution applies to foreign exchange rules, where the bank is the gatekeeper and the reader should ask the bank what purposes it can process.

What the site never infers from a young domain or a missing broker

No platform is rated or ranked on this site. A young domain is not called a warning, and a missing broker is not called a fraud. The site records what a regulator published and when, and leaves the reader to decide. A name absent from the commodity exchange list may simply trade a product that exchange does not cover, and a domain created yesterday may belong to a firm that registered its name years ago. The records answer one question each, and none of them answer all questions at once.

A broker's registration with the exchange covers dealing on that exchange only. It does not state that the broker is safe, solvent, or honest. It does not state that the broker may accept money for overseas gold or forex offers. When a reader sees a platform named in a Pakistani regulator's list, the domain age table can show when its website was first registered, but it cannot show whether the platform is permitted to operate in Pakistan. The law pages point to the bodies that can answer that.