I am in the process of starting a warez linking forum. So to keep my butt covered, when registering a domain name with a registrar, what I did was I bought an anonymous American Express gift card, called American Express and asked them to add my (fake) personal information (Name, Address, phone) onto the gift card so that I can use it to buy the domain name with the registrar. When registering the domain name, i registered using the same fake personal information that I added onto the card. Everything looked like it worked out - Order was complete, my domain name was registered, I receved email confirmation with name servers and everything had gone through.... a couple of days later, I received an email frome the registrar that the order has been "Declined by our fraud department after reviewing the transaction and contact details associated with it carefully." I am really pissed now. I have no idea how they can even detect this other than paying for one of those People finder services like Intelius and literally searching for the name and address that I signed up with. So basically, they took the money off my American Express git card and into their pocket, yet they are not registering my domain name and not giving me their services. They bascally stole my money and it's not like I can contact them and complain about it, so it sucks. I've done many WHOIS searches and the domain is once again availale to the public. My question is, is there any way that I can successfuly register a domain name with a registrar WITHOUT giving the registrar my real personal information and not getting everything declined later on like this? I am already gonna purchase privacy protection for the WHOIS for the public privacy, but I don't want the registrar to know my personal information either. I am just trying to cover my butt so that if something goes wrong, it doesn't get traced back to me. I read somewhere on here that Virtual Credit Cards may be an option, but I am not sure how safe those are, and I have a feeling the same result can happen as it did with this gift card. Are there certain registrars who look into this type of thing more than others so that they can be avoided? If anyone has some good information on any of this, please post here. thanks.
Don't worry. I have one established warez site with my real personal information and until today,i still did not get caught. It have been 3 years old. What you can do is,first enter the real information,then after successful buy the domain,change your real information to fake one.
No need to worry about it with the domain name, If you use common sense to handle a warez forum with correct steps (Warez hosting, linking etc), then it won't be a problem.
I know that I am probably being too paranoid, but I'd rather be safe than sorry. I am now considering using http://katzglobal.com they seem to make the domain registration process really anonymous (not just the privacy whois that other registrars offer) because they never ask for your personal info to begin with. They have been in business for 12 years and have an A+ with the BBB. Those are the advantages. The disadvantages are that they are more expensive ($19.95/yr), are not not ICANN accredited (because they do not collect/forward personal info) and if something ever happens to them (they go out of business or are bought out), then what happens to your domain name? since it was never registered in your name, you may lose it.... if anyone has more info on anonymous domain registrations or Katz Global, please post!