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 Katz Global read the following article and responded:

"I did read your page and this is very interesting what you have posted. I find it mostly to be correct although I am not sure about us us following in the footsteps of PRQ / Pirate Bay.

We have been doing anonymous hosting since 1996 which is almost the first year of the commercial internet. We used to have a domain called katzgm.com at that time. Our company is literally 15 years old. If there was anyone doing anonymous hosting before us, they are not around today. I know of one that was around in that time that may still be functioning on a very small level, but they are not mentioned in your blog. GoDaddy tried to patent our style of hosting and threatened us legally over it, but we actually own the trademark "anonymous hosting" which frustrates a lot of potential competitors.

GoDaddy eventually backed off of us and let us alone. You are right that they are not anonymous. the legal aspect of this is what you are getting at but maybe do not understand yet. If you are an ICANN registered domain name provider, you cannot sell anonymous domain names. This is why GoDaddy created Domains By Proxy. This is a separate company not technically under ICANN contract. This is how they get around this contractually. We have never been ICANN accredited, nor will we ever be."

Launched in 2002, Domains By Proxy was the Internet's very first Whois privacy service, but don't be fooled by "FAKE" privacy.

So you want some privacy eh? Did you know in a society that claims to protect privacy as sacred, we find ourselves exposed openly everywhere. There are cameras on street corners checking traffic, in shopping mall and store parking lots as well as the stores themselves, and the Internet is also very traceable and trackable. You probably think that buying privacy through a service such as Domains By Proxy, or Network Solutions, you will be protected right? Wrong. There is NO privacy, if your domain or website becomes a controversy, both Domains By Proxy and Network Solutions Private Domain Registration will throw your privacy right out the window and you under a bus so fast, you won't even have time to blink before that "private information or private registration data" becomes public knowledge. WhoIsGuard Privacy Protection is no different thatn Network Solutions or Domains by Proxy.

 

Really? You believed that for $8.99 that GoDaddy's Domain By Proxy was going to keep you anonymous? They say a sucker is born every day, but you don't have to be that sucker. You get what you pay for in life and privacy is no different. If you want to truly be anonymous on the Internet, you are going to have to pay for that luxury and there are several ways to keep your privacy and we are going to tell you them.

What you really need to know is that a subpoena is your worst enemy and these companies will sometimes even divulge your information without a subpoena. If you are considering using a United States or North American based privacy provider, your ignorance is going to be your worst enemy. Anonymous free speech is a first amendment right.

If you want to remain completely anonymous, you are going to have to pay more than $8.99. The first step to 100% anonymity is to register the domain through a service provider such as Anonymous Speech domain registration or Katz Global anonymous domain registration. Anonymous Speech and Katz Global domain registration is done Internationally. When domain registration is done Internationally, it makes it even more difficult because the people trying to find out the information must start complying with International laws and it becomes a jurisdictional nightmare. As long as you are not committing International crimes, creating a website or domain with controversial information on it, is a civil matter. If the information you are posting on the website is posted completely anonymous, it almost doesn't even matter if it is criminal because it can be done virtually untraceably. In fact, anonymous hosting is not all that much more than regular website hosting through places like Host Gator.

If you registered a domain with GoDaddy and included privacy when you registered the domain, you just spent more than Katz Global charges to register a domain completely anonymously. Hosting services from providers such as Katz Global and Anonymous Speech cost between $300-$600 a year, but removes you completely from United States jurisdiction. Anonymous Speech is the better hosting choice if you are going to have more than one website or domain. It also come with cPanel, whereas Katz Global charges extra for cPanel.

 

PRQ and The Pirate Bay were the pioneers and used to be one of the leaders in anonymous hosting. PRQ suffered serious legal ramifications but set the bar Internationally. Katz Global and Anonymous Speech are also the industry leaders. In a Wired Magazine article about The Pirate Bay and PRQ, "The pirates have since moved the Bay's hosting back to Sweden, where they've built technological bulwarks against another takedown, law-hardening the Bay's network architecture with a system of redundant servers that spans three nations. Shutting down the site in any single country will only cripple the Pirate Bay for as long as it takes for its fail-over scripts to execute, a gap measurable in minutes.

The various servers' locations are obscured behind a load balancer configured to lie, the crew says. Once the failsafe is triggered, a determined adversary with an international team of litigators might be able to track down the servers, but by that time -- according to the plan -- the pirates will have deployed mirrors in even more countries. In theory, the corporate lawyers will eventually tire of this game of international copyright Whack-A-Mole."

The best International lawyers on the planet, cannot force places like Anonymous Speech, PRQ, and Katz Global to identify you, because they have no identifiable information about you, then don't you think you should spend a little bit more money than $8.99 for privacy protection? PRQ was bought out I thought, I am not even sure they are still in existance.

Anonymous Speech is a slightly more money than Katz Global, for single domains, but they have anonymous e-mail which is FREE to try out, and the price difference is outweighed by the ability to add multiple domains. Katz Global would be much cheaper to register the domains.

Being able to send people e-mails without being able to be traced is not 'cool', it is smart. The irony is for places that do track or store your IP address, if you were really smart, you would drive around until you found an unsecured wireless signal to use, so the IP address when it was traced would be traced to some random person's house. It happens all the time.

Do I sound experienced in all of this? I do a lot of reading, I wanted to be a hacker for most of my teenage years, but realized that hacking would likely end up with sacking. I like MAD's Spy vs. Spy. I am only a white hat Internet activist, and while I do not do anything illegal today, past experiences have helped me refocus my vision to use what I know to my legal advantage. FREE SPEECH.

Domains By Proxy throws people under the bus and releases the so called private information they have daily to comply with court orders, and we know of situations where the anonymity was broken without court orders, but by meer threat of a lawsuit against them.

Even places like Yahoo!, Google, and other e-mail providers are releasing personal private information to comply with law enforcement policies. I mean for heaven's sake, Domains By Proxy has their SUBPOENA POLICY information listed on their homepage. If that is not a red flag as to how little regard they have for your privacy, then by all means please be stupid and waste your $8.99 for their privacy services.