RaidForums gets raided, alleged admin arrested

Re:RaidForums gets raided, alleged admin arrested by btown on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @02:44PM (#31006737)

I imagine a lot of people think that just because they've used a WHOIS anonymization service through their registrar, domain registration isn't traceable back to their account. On the contrary, registrars make this incredibly straightforward for law enforcement to do: for instance, see https://www.godaddy.com/legal/agreements/subpoena-policy. It's a remarkably silly way to get busted.

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Re:RaidForums gets raided, alleged admin arrested by omegacharlie on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @04:37PM (#31007949)

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.

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Re:RaidForums gets raided, alleged admin arrested by btown on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @05:40PM (#31008551)

https://www.namecheap.com/legal/general/court-order-and-subp...

https://www.cloudflare.com/media/pdf/transparency-report.pdf - and 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.

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Re:RaidForums gets raided, alleged admin arrested by 2Gkashmiri on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @11:41PM (#31023190)

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?

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Re:RaidForums gets raided, alleged admin arrested by Teandw on Thursday April 14, 2022 @02:51PM (#31031536)

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.

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Re:RaidForums gets raided, alleged admin arrested by 2Gkashmiri on Friday April 15, 2022 @02:24AM (#31037132)

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?

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