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>Using similar tools, Homeland Security investigators also performed something called a WHOIS lookup on a domain that redirected people to the main KAT site. A

by Cenk 10y ago

>Using similar tools, Homeland Security investigators also performed something called a WHOIS lookup on a domain that redirected people to the main KAT site. A WHOIS search can provide the name, address, email and phone number of a website registrant. In the case of kickasstorrents.biz, that was Artem Vaulin from Kharkiv, Ukraine. Wow, he put his real name in the WHOIS records?

herbst 10y ago
now i can only think this is only a sock puppet who got cought.
- zzzcpan 10y ago
  Possibly, especially given how easy it is to get a sock puppet, but not necessarily. If I remember correctly KAT was even hosted in Ukraine at the beginning and no one in Ukraine was really hiding back then.
  - herbst 10y ago
    Thats a good point and relativates it a bit. Afaik also privacy protection was rather expensive and rare, not as today for $2 (or even free) with any new domain.
    - Cenk 10y ago
      But could he not just have put any name into the WHOIS?