Since I never knew that "www.paypal-community.com" existed, I checked the basics: $ nslookup www.paypal-community.com Server: 66.174.92.14 Addres

Since I never knew that "www.paypal-community.com" existed, I checked the basics: $ nslookup www.paypal-community.com Server: 66.174.92.14 Address: 66.174.92.14#53 Non-authoritative answer: www.paypal-community.com canonical name = ppl.lithium.com. Name: ppl.lithium.com Address: 208.74.205.40 $ whois paypal-community.com Registrant Name: Host Master Registrant Organization: PayPal Inc. Registrant Street: 2211 North First Street Registrant City: San Jose Registrant State/Province: CA Registrant Postal Code: 95131 Registrant Country: US Registrant Phone: +1.4083767400 Registrant Phone Ext: Registrant Fax: Registrant Fax Ext: Registrant Email: hostmaster@ebay.com $ whois 208.74.205.40 NetRange: 208.74.204.0 - 208.74.207.255 CIDR: 208.74.204.0/22 OriginAS: NetName: LITHIUM-NET1 NetHandle: NET-208-74-204-0-1 Parent: NET-208-0-0-0-0 NetType: Direct Assignment RegDate: 2007-02-09 Updated: 2012-02-24 Ref: http://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-208-74-204-0-1 OrgName: Lithium Technologies, Inc. OrgId: LITHI Address: 225 Bush Street Address: 15th floor City: San Francisco StateProv: CA PostalCode: 94104 Country: US RegDate: 2007-01-04 Updated: 2014-02-25 Ref: http://whois.arin.net/rest/org/LITHI ... And of course: http://www.networking4all.com/en/support/tools/site+check/report/?fqdn=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.paypal-community.com&protocol=https http://www.networking4all.com/en/support/tools/site+check/re... Many pages on paypal-community.com have a "Powered By Lithium" banner, so they seem to be the folks who wrote the "community forum" software. http://www.lithium.com/ http://www.lithium.com/ And they're mentioned in the paypal privacy policy: https://www.paypal.com/uk/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full https://www.paypal.com/uk/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full