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Anonymous domain name registration?

by IT Support in

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does anyone have any experience regarding anonymously registering a new domain name?

there are a number of us registrars offering anonymous, or private, domain name registration, where the registrar registers the new domain name in their own name but the customer has full rights to use, trade, sell the name, etc.

they usually charge an additional $5 to $10 per month for the service.

IT Support

To everyone who commented:

Thank you very much for all your suggestions. I've got plenty of ideas to investigate over the next few days, and I'm sure I'll be able to use one of them.

LittleToe,

Phone a friend?

You've obviously imbibed too deeply of the Liffey-water! Welcome home.

rebel8,

Thank you, that's not a bad idea at all. I'll give it serious consideration.

clear2c,

No, it's not for a business.

Nathan Natas,

I love the idea. The only problem I can see is that Kitty McMenemy knows your real identity, so you're still vulnerable.

Regarding Diego's question, it seems to have been removed. However, this question from Sofi seems similar:

(3) Specifically, internet properties like websites and domains, could those be combined into one LLC or do you recommend 2 separate LLC's? --You can use one for both, but using two is better because they will not be linked in any way. (4) If two, which state(s) do you recommend? --NM for both. (5) I keep going round and round in my head over this, and my last question is whether an offshore LLC to hold assets like domain name and/or website ownership would be not as good as the NM and/or DE or better than the NM and/or the DE? --Offshore entities of any kind are far more complicated. They are also more expensive. They require resident agents in that country, plus annual reports. A better solution is a NM LLC with a Canary Islands (Spain) business address. If anyone goes after your records, best of luck in trying to serve a subpoena in Spain!

Jourles,

I loved dirtclod, thank you for all your work.

Actually, the lawyer's send a C&D letter directly to the hosting company.

I know, I guess I should have included both the registrar and the web hosting company. In any case, the principle's the same. (I had the web hosting company in mind when I referred to the $10-a-month account!)

And takes less than an hour to set up a new account somewhere else and to upload your files

That's exactly what I had in mind, too.

Enigmatic,

This is basically JJ Luna's suggestion, referred to by Nathan Natas above. He recommends setting up a LLC in New Mexico.

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Anonymous online payment

by IT Support in

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further to my thread on anonymous domain name registration, does anyone have any experience of using anonymous online payment systems?

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IT Support

(Oops, I inadvertently posted a reply to my 'Anonymous domain name registration' thread here.)

LittleToe,

the "product" will arrive in a brown paper parcel

<lol> It obviously wasn't limited to just Liffey-water!

googlemagoogle, rebel8,

rebel8 wrote: You will not be able to withdraw any funds you receive in that account until you link either a bank account or credit card to that Paypal account. However, your customers will not know what bank acct/cc is linked to the Paypal account.

I've already tried Paypal--it's good, but it's definitely not anonymous. If you want to receive funds, you have to enter your real name becuase it has to be the same as the account name of your credit card or bank account. When someone sends you funds, Paypal sends them an automatic acknowledgement / receipt, which has your real name on it.

Even if receiving funds wasn't an issue, and are only interested in making payments, you still have to pay funds into Paypal, and that leaves a paper trail.

Nathan Natas,

I would suggest that you open up a NEW bank account that is not the one you use to pay your mortgage and household bills from, and use that account only for your Paypal adventures. I would also suggest signing up for a new credit card to be used the same way - ONLY for paypal. For either account, it might be nice to have a post office box or a private postal company listed as your address.

Devious, aren't you? Don't let me get on your bad side!

Don't you have to produce a utility bill or something when opening a bank or credit card account, in order to prove your identity? Any problem if you're not a US resident? Can you do it online?

Elsewhere,

When I tried your www.internetcash.com link, I got a 404. I then tried the home page and got Methacton School District. Seems something funny is going on here!

What a shame, it looked very promising. I'll look into some of the other options you suggest. Thanks.

LittleToe,

Actually it's not illegal in Britain to open a bank account under a pseudonym. As long as it isn't used for nefarious means it's quite legal.

True, but the bank still knows your real identity and address, so it's not anonymous.

Nathan Natas,

Could an American citizen open a British chequing account? Would the Bank expect a UK address?

Probably. British banks aren't fussy, they'll take anyone's money. Getting it back is another matter, though...

Simon,

It's perfectly legal to have bank accounts in other countries

That's what I'm starting to think about. Know any countries which don't require you to prove your identity?

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Anonymous online payment

by IT Support in

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friends

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further to my thread on anonymous domain name registration, does anyone have any experience of using anonymous online payment systems?

.

IT Support

Further to my thread on Anonymous domain name registration, does anyone have any experience of using anonymous online payment systems?

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Anonymous domain name registration?

by IT Support in

jw
friends

does anyone have any experience regarding anonymously registering a new domain name?

there are a number of us registrars offering anonymous, or private, domain name registration, where the registrar registers the new domain name in their own name but the customer has full rights to use, trade, sell the name, etc.

they usually charge an additional $5 to $10 per month for the service.

IT Support

clear2c, professor,

Thanks for your comments. Yes, they are good for avoiding spam.

But there also appears to be a problem. The registrars apparently are too quick to disclose their customer's real identity if they receive a lawyer's letter challenging the contents of their customer's web site.

Thus, let's say you want to create a human rights site, exposing a multinational corporation's abuses. You register your domain name 'XYZstinks.org' with ABC registrars. To avoid the problems Enigmatic describes above, you register your real name with ABC, but pay an extra monthly fee for the 'privacy' option. You set up your site.

Naturally, XYZ, Inc. are none too happy with your site and instruct their lawyers to send a 'cease and desist' letter to ABC registrars, demanding to know the identity of the site owner or they will sue ABC for defamation and damages.

What is ABC going to do? Go to court against a multinational corporation with revenues exceeding those of many states, to defend the privacy of a customer who's paying them $10 a month? Especially when ABC has no idea whether or not your allegations against XYZ are true...? Of course not. They reply to XYZ's laywers by return, giving them your name, address and inside leg measurement. Keeping your business is simply not worth the hassle to them.

So, my question is, is there a better way to maintain your anonymity and/or privacy?

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Anonymous domain name registration?

by IT Support in

jw
friends

does anyone have any experience regarding anonymously registering a new domain name?

there are a number of us registrars offering anonymous, or private, domain name registration, where the registrar registers the new domain name in their own name but the customer has full rights to use, trade, sell the name, etc.

they usually charge an additional $5 to $10 per month for the service.

IT Support

Enigmatic,

Yes you can put whatever for registration details but I don't reccomend it,

You're right; perhaps what we really need is a guarantee of privacy, not anonymity.

I had a ex that was quite devious and got a hold of my password and changed everything to her legal name, well long to make a long story short she is the pround owner of a decent website, that I slaved over to get going.

That's what happens when you start letting the good little ladies out of the kitchen...!

Try Yahoo domains, I just registered a domain with them, it was under 10 bucks a month for the domain, with some basic webhosting and private registration is .75 a month extra.

Yes, not bad at all, but as has been said elsewhere regarding another web site, if they start getting threatening lawyer's letters, they're not going to go to court to defend your privacy for a $10-a-month account.

Hope this helps, if you have any ?'s message me, thats what I do e-stores and internet development.

Thanks, might take you up on that.

plus if you use a credit card for registration who anonymous is that?

Quite right. Do you know anything about anonymous online payments?

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Anonymous domain name registration?

by IT Support in

jw
friends

does anyone have any experience regarding anonymously registering a new domain name?

there are a number of us registrars offering anonymous, or private, domain name registration, where the registrar registers the new domain name in their own name but the customer has full rights to use, trade, sell the name, etc.

they usually charge an additional $5 to $10 per month for the service.

IT Support

Jourles,

I see what you mean:

If money was absolutely no object...

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Anonymous domain name registration?

by IT Support in

jw
friends

does anyone have any experience regarding anonymously registering a new domain name?

there are a number of us registrars offering anonymous, or private, domain name registration, where the registrar registers the new domain name in their own name but the customer has full rights to use, trade, sell the name, etc.

they usually charge an additional $5 to $10 per month for the service.

IT Support

According to the same EFF page:

"The imperfections of hosted services may be seen in the example of Domains-By- Proxy and the Re-Code.com website. Domains-By-Proxy revealed the name of its "anonymous" registrant as soon as the registrant's conduct was challenged, without any determination that the challenger had a legal cause of action."

proxy fight [Domains-by-proxy update] The same case that brought Domains by Proxy to my attention demonstrates its shortcomings: Domains by Proxy doesn't proxy for long (via nettime-l). Re-Code bills itself as "a new space for political satire using products that already exist in stores" -- it offered bar-codes, purportedly for printing and swapping with those on WalMart products. There's plenty of room for argument whether the site was "encouraging and facilitating theft and fraud", as WalMart claimed, or satirizing consumer culture [recall voteauction.com, where First Amendment defenses prevailed], but that debate should happen before breach of the site-owner's anonymity.

On April 10th, Re-Code was informed that their anonymity service agreement had been terminated by Domains by Proxy -- on the mere allegation of unlawful activity. Unfortunately, that means the anonymizing service fails just when it's needed most. It fails to protect unpopular speakers from the chilling effect of threats. We still need anonymous domain name registration for those cases. http://wendy.seltzer.org/blog/archives/2003/04/11/proxy_fight_domainsbyproxy_update.html

So they may be anonymous in theory, but not in practice.

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Let's Take A Look At Judge Rutherford In The Pages of Zion's Watch Tower

by Kenneson in

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i thought i'd present my finds on rutherford's early years in the w.t.

society before he usurped the presidency.

someone writes a letter and mentions judge rutherford.

IT Support

Athanasius,

According to testimony at the Olin Moyle trial, in 1915 Russell gave Rutherford $1,000 so he could leave New York and set up a law practice in California.

Do you know what page of the Olin Moyle trial transcript that is on?

Thanks

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Anonymous domain name registration?

by IT Support in

jw
friends

does anyone have any experience regarding anonymously registering a new domain name?

there are a number of us registrars offering anonymous, or private, domain name registration, where the registrar registers the new domain name in their own name but the customer has full rights to use, trade, sell the name, etc.

they usually charge an additional $5 to $10 per month for the service.

IT Support

Does anyone have any experience regarding anonymously registering a new domain name?

There are a number of US registrars offering anonymous, or private, domain name registration, where the registrar registers the new domain name in their own name but the customer has full rights to use, trade, sell the name, etc. They usually charge an additional $5 to $10 per month for the service. However, they all state that if the cutomer does anything 'bad' with the domain name (e.g. illegal pornography, spamming, copyright infringement), they will lose the benefit of anonymity. So it's not a true anonymous registration.

As a matter of interest, note this comment from EFF:

The tradition of anonymous speech is older than United States, where founders Hamilton, Madison, and Jay wrote the Federalist Papers as "Publius" and "the Federal Farmer" spoke up in rebuttal. The U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly recognized rights to speak anonymously derived from the First Amendment. See McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Comm'n, 514 U.S. 334, 342 (1995) ("anonymous pamphleteering is not a pernicious, fraudulent practice, but an honorable tradition of advocacy and dissent");

But I bet you would never guess who was a supporter of anonymous free speech (from the same web page as above):

In the United States, at least, the right to anonymous speech is protected well beyond the printed page. Thus the Supreme Court struck down a law requiring proselytizers to register before going door-to-door, even where the town had claimed an interest in preventing physical crime supported its law. See Watchtower Bible & Tract Soc'y of New York, Inc. v. Village of Stratton, 536 U.S. 150, 166 (2002). Requiring registration to speak through domain names online does not fit this tradition.

So there you have it, Watchtower supports anonymous free speech.

So, getting back to my original question. Hypothetically, if someone was involved in a project which they did not want to be traceable back to them, how would they go about it?

Would it make any difference, e.g. registering the new domain name with a registrar located in a country which would be hostile to a US court's requests for information. But what then if a multinational corporation used its local branch to request the information?

Any tips, suggestions or personal experiences would be most welcome.

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MAN: to blame? GOD: benign and caring? What is the whole truth?

by Terry in

almost every watchtower publication we've ever seen begins in the garden of eden.. we are told the earth was created for man.

we are told man was given a paradise and that his disobedience introduced to the world sin and death.

man ruined the wonderful, gentle and peaceful plan of god.. that is the story we are told.

IT Support

Terry,

I don't call myself atheist. I call myself agnostic. That means I DON'T KNOW. If I were atheist I'd KNOW there was no god. I DON'T KNOW.

Being an atheist, it seems to me, is an act of faith as well.

As others have said, I agree that there is a spectrum of shades of meaning here. At either end of the spectrum are theists and atheists.

I would suggest in the middle are agnostic theists (do not know, but tending towards belief in god) and agnostic atheists (do not know, but tending towards no belief in god).

Does that make sense? Is it the same as 'weak atheists'? So are there also 'weak theists'?