Anonymous Domain Registration and Web Hosting

Requirements

• Around $100 in cold hard cash
• Access to a store that sells prepaid credit/debit cards

Does your presence and activities on the Internet require you to avoid a computer forensics investigation altogether? Then you might be interested in this anonymous method of purchasing a domain as well as web hosting.

This article is not about paying to keep your domain registration information private or using a service which will purchase the domain for you and fill in their contact details.

No, this article is about purchasing a domain and remaining completely anonymous while doing so. There are plenty of places offering anonymous registration out there but of course they’ll cave at the first wiff of legal issues, spilling their guts and records that they have about you.

What you’ll need to do is purchase a prepaid credit card like one of those AMEX cards you can pick up at Walmart.

You may be required to sign the card with your own signature to keep it legit but if you’re not showing any ID while purchasing the card, you could for whatever reason acquire amnesia and forget who you really are while signing. Anything is possible.

This means that later, when you purchase your domain name, there is now no real identity linked to the transaction. Meaning that if you misspell your name or leave a number off your address by accident, there is no way to tell who actually registered the domain.

Since you’ve come this far registering your anonymous domain. You may as well take it a step further and purchase an offshore web hosting account with a host that does not require you to enter any private information and accepts anonymous payments.

Shinjiru offers this service at a very reasonable price and does not require you to enter any details about who you are. In fact, you can fill out their registration form and provide “NA” for all personal data (name, address, phone #, etc.) except for an email address. Which you’ll need to register your account.

From the “About Us” page at Shinjiru:

Shinjiru respects your privacy and you just need to disclose whatever you want when you host with us. You can remain anonymous plus Shinjiru accepts various methods of anonymous payment options.

Why might you want an offshore web host?

• Keep your website out of your country of residence (jurisdiction)
• Possibility of avoiding some taxes
• Keep the prying eyes of the government in the country in which you reside off of your transactions

This whole method will fail if you provide personal information for the prepaid card you purchase. So shop around and find one that you can drop some cold hard cash on at the register.

When you’ve used up all you can on the card and have a few dollars or pennies left think of donating to an animal shelter near you.

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