It's also shady that they have only announced such a big update in their telegram making most of their users in the dark, and this was during not prior. Even if they don't exit scam, this is still without a doubt a shady behavior.
Cloudflare makes it possible to hide the server IP by acting as a proxy so that's not them but cloudflare.
Also reminds me of coinsmarkets who had the same excuse. Now that I think about it, it was up from time to time, maybe to appear genuine. I say there's a fair chance vinex might do the same so check them as many times a day @op.