Comments on: Anonymous hosting company?

Question: Anonymous hosting company?

medusa — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 14:36:38 -0800

Can you recommend an anonymous web hosting company?

I would like to register a domain name and set up a web site anonymously. Searching for anonymous web hosting turns up companies such as this, this, and this one. Does anyone have any experience with any anonymous web hosting companies? Can you recommend any as particularly good or bad?

By: zaebiz

zaebiz — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 14:41:11 -0800

Katz Global is the company I have heard the most buzz about in the past.

By: Steven C. Den Beste

Steven C. Den Beste — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 14:48:00 -0800

How anonymous is "anonymous"? If you mean "somewhere I can safely post stuff that would otherwise get me tossed into jail" then there is no such thing. A lot of places will keep your identity confidential, but in the face of court orders, they'll reveal your contact information to proper authorities.

By: medusa

medusa — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 16:52:27 -0800

zaebiz: Any more details about that buzz?

By: sipher

sipher — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 17:19:52 -0800

HavenCo would be my first choice assuming you don't need this on the cheap.

They can't be forced into handing over your data because they're a sovereign state called "Sealand". They make their own laws, currency etc. but the whole point is their data center.

In a nutshell, this is for hosting what swiss banks are for your money.

By: Steven C. Den Beste

Steven C. Den Beste — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 17:57:35 -0800

Sealand is being sold. (And I don't think the servers are physically located on that gun platform, so I think that their claims are advertising hype.)

By: terrapin

terrapin — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 19:18:50 -0800

Dreamhost offers what they call Domain WHOIS privacy if that is what you seek.

By: zaebiz

zaebiz — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 20:59:01 -0800

zaebiz: Any more details about that buzz?

It was 4 or 5 years ago now. I was involved with an internet privacy company and the guys there used to hang around cypherpunk groups online and I believe that's where I heard the buzz about it. Cypherpunk's know their game in this area so it might be worthwhile finding a cypherpunk mailing list or website and post a question or check the archives.

By: sipher

sipher — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 06:00:09 -0800

Steven, didn't know about it being on the market but the DC was indeed located inside the platform. It was arguably the most secure DC in the world (even from on-board employees). See Wired for more.

By: drstein

drstein — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 17:39:22 -0800

sipher: "HavenCo" and Sealand is a huge fucking joke. Seriously. IIRC most of it also burned up in a recent fire.

OP: you're probably just looking for Domains By Proxy.