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I'm thinking about setting up a consumer oriented website dealing with insurance problems here in Australia. It would include a forum where people can actually name the insurers they're having problems with and describe those problems. It's an area I know a fair bit about and that needs reform. There's nothing like the glare of public exposure to encourage change.
There is already a well known general consumer complaints website here run by an individual. It cops a lot of flak from large corporations, including threats to sue and, I think, being sued on a few occasions. It's just rich coporations' bully boy tactics to shut the site up to prevent shoddy goods and services and corporate misconduct being exposed. The website owner has gone close to a nervous breakdown over it.
I can do without unnecessary excitement and threats of bankruptcy, so I don't see any point in making it easy for the bully boys to identify me. If they can't locate me they don't know where to send their letters of demand and where to serve their writs.
I'm thinking about setting up an offshore company in Vanuatu to run the site (Vanuatu is to corporations what Liberia is to ships) and insulate me from nasty consequences, or if I could be sure I couldn't be identified doing it in my name and saving the corporation set-up fees in Vanuatu. The Vanuatu corporation is perfectly legal. I'm just doing to the insurers what they do to their customers: hiding behind a corporation so no individual person is ever responsible for the damage they do to others.
It'd be nice if I could make the site ownership as hard to trace as possible.
I know there are various services that offer (supposedly) untraceable IP addresses and that there is some sort of hidden ownership option for domain names but I've never used either and have no idea how they work.
I'm assuming that if I register the domain name with either my or the Vanuatu company's details it'll be easy enough to identify the owner through a whois search, but if anyone knows how I can erect another barrier by concealing the ownership I'd be grateful.
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