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Some context for those that do not know. I believe some time ago raidforums.com was transferred from NameCheap to Cloudflare registrar (pre-seizure) and it was

Some context for those that do not know. I believe some time ago raidforums.com was transferred from NameCheap to Cloudflare registrar (pre-seizure) and it was under data redaction with an address in the territory of Cyprus in Whois data. Some sort of attempt at P.O box or shell company voodoo is my guess. With Cloudflare registrar I would not be surprised if they were a cooperating party in this case.

btown 5y ago
https://www.namecheap.com/legal/general/court-order-and-subpoena-policy/ https://www.namecheap.com/legal/general/court-order-and-subp... https://www.cloudflare.com/media/pdf/transparency-report.pdf https://www.cloudflare.com/media/pdf/transparency-report.pdf - and https://developers.cloudflare.com/registrar/why-choose-cloudflare/whois-redaction/ https://developers.cloudflare.com/registrar/why-choose-cloud... indicates Cloudflare retains "the registrant email on file for that domain." WHOIS redaction is extremely useful for shielding personal information from non-governmental entities! But US government entities have full access to any data the registrar has on file, regardless of whether they provide redaction services.
- 2Gkashmiri 5y ago
  Why is everyone expected to put in real data into your who is domain data? Last time I bought a domain, I did "1,lol,NYC, Dubai,90210" and other nonsense in the four fields. Is it a compulsion to use real data and then rely on registrars promise to not disclose it?
  - Teandw 5y ago
    It's required for legal purposes. If legal notices are served on the domain, the registrars need to know where to send them. Using fake details are fine until you need to prove ownership for some reason or a legal notice is given. Easy way to get a domain seized is to have it not be responding to legal notices.
    - 2Gkashmiri 5y ago
      in the case of raidforums, was the admin going to respond to legal notices? probably not because what they were doing was not legal anyways so why bother. >Easy way to get a domain seized is to have it not be responding to legal notices. for such a website, seizure is ultimately going to happen regardless of response so why put themselves at more risk?

btown 5y ago

https://www.namecheap.com/legal/general/court-order-and-subpoena-policy/ https://www.namecheap.com/legal/general/court-order-and-subp... https://www.cloudflare.com/media/pdf/transparency-report.pdf https://www.cloudflare.com/media/pdf/transparency-report.pdf - and https://developers.cloudflare.com/registrar/why-choose-cloudflare/whois-redaction/ https://developers.cloudflare.com/registrar/why-choose-cloud... indicates Cloudflare retains "the registrant email on file for that domain." WHOIS redaction is extremely useful for shielding personal information from non-governmental entities! But US government entities have full access to any data the registrar has on file, regardless of whether they provide redaction services.

2Gkashmiri 5y ago
Why is everyone expected to put in real data into your who is domain data? Last time I bought a domain, I did "1,lol,NYC, Dubai,90210" and other nonsense in the four fields. Is it a compulsion to use real data and then rely on registrars promise to not disclose it?
- Teandw 5y ago
  It's required for legal purposes. If legal notices are served on the domain, the registrars need to know where to send them. Using fake details are fine until you need to prove ownership for some reason or a legal notice is given. Easy way to get a domain seized is to have it not be responding to legal notices.
  - 2Gkashmiri 5y ago
    in the case of raidforums, was the admin going to respond to legal notices? probably not because what they were doing was not legal anyways so why bother. >Easy way to get a domain seized is to have it not be responding to legal notices. for such a website, seizure is ultimately going to happen regardless of response so why put themselves at more risk?