Echelon Restores Website After Unauthorized Registrar DNS Change

Echelon said its website is fully accessible again after an unauthorized nameserver change at its domain registrar redirected visitors to a phishing copy, while its team found the incident did not affect its smart contracts.

The team traced the disruption to a change at Name.com, which serves as the domain’s registrar. Echelon’s domain was managed through Vercel, but its nameservers were switched to Name.com’s DNS. That change redirected people trying to reach the official site to an unauthorized page. Echelon said the issue was confined to the registrar and DNS setup, and its smart contracts were unaffected.

On Saturday, Echelon had warned that its domain might be sending visitors to an unauthorized website. In its follow-up, the company identified the registrar-level nameserver change as the cause and said access had been restored. Echelon also said domain resolution was functioning normally. The update came Sunday, Nov. 1. The company describes itself as a modular money market.