Radaris Ordered to Surrender Domains in New Jersey Daniel’s Law Privacy Lawsuit

Radaris Ordered to Surrender Domains in New Jersey Daniel’s Law Privacy Lawsuit A New Jersey judge ordered the transfer of Radaris.com and 13 related domains to Atlas Data Privacy Corp following accusations that the data broker repeatedly violated New Jersey's Daniel's Law. The transfer follows years of legal maneuvers, shell company registrations, and procedural delays by the service's operators. A New Jersey court ordered radaris.com and 13 other data broker domains transferred to Atlas Data Privacy Corp after Radaris repeatedly failed to appear and defend against a Daniel's Law lawsuit. Radaris defense attorney Victor Worms filed a motion to vacate the default judgment, arguing Radaris.com is a non-entity lacking capacity to be sued and calling the domain transfer unconstitutional. Documents obtained by Atlas show radaris.com and at least 25 related sites are operated by a small Boston-area team utilizing offshore shells and shared infrastructure. Over 150 data broker defendants sued under Daniel's Law have mounted constitutional challenges under the First Amendment, with at least 70 cases moved to federal court. Court Orders Domain Forfeiture Over Daniel's Law Violations Atlas Data Privacy Corp sued Radaris in February 2024 under Daniel’s Law, a New Jersey statute that permits law enforcement, government officials, and judges to demand the removal of their personal data from commercial search databases subject to $1,000 fines per violation. After Atlas expanded the lawsuit in June 2025, the court determined that the operators had been provided multiple opportunities to contest the claims but failed to appear. On August 26, the judge ordered the transfer of 14 domains, including radaris.com, to Atlas. Defense attorney Victor Worms moved to vacate the judgment, contending that Radaris.com is not a legal entity capable of being sued and that the transfer amounts to unconstitutional forfeiture. Corporate Obfuscation and Offshore Shell Entities Litigation documents and past disputes reveal a recurring pattern of corporate shell maneuvering. Atlas and its legal representatives described an 'island-hopping' strategy in which Radaris constantly shifted terms of service to name entities across Cyprus, the Marshall Islands, the British Virgin Islands, and Seychelles to evade judgment. A similar tactic successfully halted a $7.5 million default judgment against Radaris in 2017. In the current litigation, Atlas discovered that a Marshall Islands entity newly cited in Radaris's terms of service had not yet been legally formed when named. Internal Records Reveal Boston-Based Operation and Revenues Atlas obtained over 10,000 internal emails and documents showing that more than 25 people-search sites and numerous nominal corporate vehicles are run by three or four Boston-area individuals using shared mailboxes, a single virtual office, and unified banking accounts. The records indicate radaris.com generates about $42,000 monthly, sister site Veripages.com earns roughly $45,000 monthly via marketing partnerships, and the network draws up to $25,000 monthly through a partnership with Onerep, a privacy-removal service whose founder previously launched numerous search brokers. Constitutional Challenges and the Broader Privacy Landscape While Daniel’s Law has been adopted or mirrored in at least 14 other states, it faces broad legal pushback. Roughly 150 data brokers targeted by Atlas have challenged the New Jersey statute on First Amendment grounds, shifting at least 70 cases to federal court, while a federal court struck down West Virginia's version as facially unconstitutional in August 2025. Privacy experts note that broad federal protections remain stalled by heavy industry lobbying from tech, crypto, and AI firms, leaving people-search entities largely unrestricted due to state exemptions for public records.

数据经纪商Radaris在隐私诉讼中失利，十余个域名被法官下令移交 因涉嫌违反新泽西州禁止公布执法及司法人员信息的《丹尼尔法》，长期拖延应诉的数据经纪公司Radaris.com及相关十余个域名被法官勒令移交予原告Atlas Data Privacy Corp，其背后复杂的壳公司操作与获利模式随之曝光。 新泽西州法官以屡次拖延且未出庭为由，下令将radaris.com及十余个数据经纪域名移交给原告Atlas公司，Radaris面临每次违规1,000美元的潜在罚款。 诉讼披露的万余份文件显示，Radaris及至少25个人员搜索网站由波士顿地区同一小团队操纵，并频繁通过马绍尔群岛等地注册新实体进行逃避诉讼的“跳岛”操作。 内部记录显示Radaris每月收入约4.2万美元，且与自称提供隐私删除服务的Onerep之间存在每月高达2.5万美元的合作收益分成。 Radaris新辩护律师正以该网站非法人实体、扣押违宪为由申请撤销缺席判决，同时约150家数据经纪商正对《丹尼尔法》提起违宪诉讼。 因违反《丹尼尔法》被缺席判决并移交域名 Radaris长期无视个人信息删除请求，最终在Atlas依据新泽西州《丹尼尔法》提起的诉讼中面临制裁。该法律允许执法人员、政府人员、法官及家属要求删除个人信息，违规者每次面临1000美元罚金。在Radaris多次拖延应诉后，新泽西州法官裁定其未尽出庭答辩义务，将radaris.com及其他13个域名直接判给Atlas。目前radaris.com已不再出售美国人详细档案，转而显示移交通知及相关调查链接。 幕后运营者与海外壳公司的“跳岛”戏法 调查与诉讼证据显示，Radaris由居住在马萨诸塞州的俄罗斯裔兄弟Igor和Dmitry Lubarsky操纵，两人曾虚构CEO“Gary Norden”并向投资者发布通稿。Atlas指出，被告在诉讼临近判决时便切换运营主体，涉及塞浦路斯、英属维尔京群岛、塞舌尔及马绍尔群岛等地的壳公司，甚至出现条款声称接管的公司在当地尚未成立的情况。Radaris律师曾于2017年的类似诉讼中以域名归属塞浦路斯公司为由成功撤销转移，并在本案中继续以Radaris.com是非法人实体无诉讼资格为由申请撤销判决。 内部邮件揭露的运营关联与利益链条 Atlas在诉讼中获得的逾万份文件证实，十余家名义上的法律实体共用同一虚拟办公室地址、银行账户和少数核心管理人员，统领至少25个搜索网站。财务数据显示，Radaris.com月入约4.2万美元，姐妹站点Veripages.com月入约4.5万美元。此外，Radaris每月还从隐私清理服务商Onerep处获得高达2.5万美元的收益，而Onerep创始人此前已被揭露自身亦运营多个人员搜索网站，形成兼任数据泄露与付费清理的双向获利模式。 全美立法推进与数据经纪行业的合宪性反扑 虽然已有至少14个州通过类似《丹尼尔法》的法案，但整个数据经纪行业正发起反击。已有至少70起相关诉讼被移交联邦法院，行业指控该法侵犯第一修正案，此前西弗吉尼亚州的类似法律已在2025年8月被联邦地方法院判定违宪。隐私专家指出，由于科技巨头、AI企业等利益集团游说阻碍，联邦层面缺乏普遍约束公共记录转售的全面隐私立法，导致仅特定公职人员享有信息剔除保护，普通民众的隐私依然在各类数据交易中暴露无遗。

The consumer data broker **Radaris.com** has long had a reputation for ignoring requests to remove personal information from its vast empire of people-search services online. That reputation caught up with the company recently in a lawsuit alleging Radaris violated a New Jersey privacy law that provides for hefty fines against data brokers that publish personal information on state law enforcement officials. In the face of repeated stonewalling and prevarication by attorneys for Radaris, the judge in the case ordered that radaris.com and more than a dozen other data broker domains be transferred to the plaintiffs. In February 2024, Radaris was sued by **Atlas Data Privacy Corp**, a company that has been pursuing data brokers alleged to be violating a New Jersey statute called [Daniel’s Law](https://www.nj.com/news/2026/08/daniels-law-was-born-from-judges-family-tragedy-now-the-privacy-law-faces-its-biggest-test.html). The statute allows state law enforcement officials, government personnel, judges and their families to have their information completely removed from commercial data brokers and people-search services, and provides for fines of $1,000 per violation against companies that ignore removal requests. Less than a month after Atlas sued Radaris, KrebsOnSecurity published [a deep dive into the Radaris co-founders](https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/03/a-close-up-look-at-the-consumer-data-broker-radaris/) — **Igor** and **Dmitry Lubarsky** (also spelled Lybarsky) — Russian-born brothers living in Massachusetts who operate a dizzying array of people-search companies as well as a number of Russian language dating services and affiliate programs. Attorneys for the Lubarsky brothers threatened to sue for defamation if the story wasn’t removed and an apology issued. Their attorney asserted that our reporting was wildly inaccurate, and that the true owners of the company were Ukrainians living in Ukraine. KrebsOnSecurity doubled down and showed how the Lubarsky brothers built and operated Radaris and other data broker companies [using a fictitious CEO’s name](https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/06/krebsonsecurity-threatened-with-defamation-lawsuit-over-fake-radaris-ceo/). Our follow-up story noted that Radaris’s attorney — a lawyer with the Boston Law Group named **Val Gurvits** — admitted his clients had invented the CEO pseudonym “**Gary Norden**,” and that Radaris also had issued multiple press releases over the years that quoted the fake CEO while seeking money from potential investors. Attorneys for Radaris waited until the last minute to appear in court and contest what was all but certain to be a default judgment in favor of the plaintiffs, and then told the court that Atlas had failed to serve the real owners and operators of Radaris and several of its sister data broker companies. Atlas re-filed the lawsuit in June 2025, this time dramatically expanding the number of Radaris family data brokers accused of violating Daniel’s Law. **Matt Adkisson**, president and CEO of Atlas, said Radaris turned to a tried-and-true playbook: Delaying in court until the last possible minute, and playing shell games with Radaris’s true country of origin and the individuals listed as owners and operators of these sites. “We refer to this period as their island-hopping phase. Privacy policies changed constantly, and new entities kept appearing from places like the Marshall Islands, the British Virgin Islands, and Seychelles,” Adkisson told KrebsOnSecurity. “Behind the scenes, it felt like a shell game. Defense lawyers told the court that certain entities merely operated the domains and were the proper parties to sue. But by the time a judgment neared, those entities would be discarded and new entities would appear. Meanwhile, the lawyers claimed the other entities that actually owned the domains should not be held responsible.” Adkisson said when the defendants updated their terms of service to state that Radaris was suddenly managed by a company in the Marshall Islands, Atlas hired an investigator in that country and soon learned the brand new entity that Radaris claimed was managing the company didn’t even exist yet. Mr. Gurvits stepped forward as Radaris’s attorney in [a class action lawsuit the company temporarily lost in 2017](https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/5969712/huebner-v-radaris-llc/) because it never contested the claim in court. When the plaintiffs told the judge they couldn’t collect on the $7.5 million default judgment, the court ordered the domain registry Verisign to transfer the radaris.com domain name to the plaintiffs. Mr. Gurvits appealed that verdict, arguing the lawsuit hadn’t named the actual owners of the Radaris domain name — a Cyprus company called **Bitseller Expert Limited** — and thus taking the domain away would be a violation of their due process rights. The judge in the 2017 case ruled in Radaris’ favor — halting the domain transfer — and told the plaintiffs they could refile their complaint. Soon after, the operator of Radaris changed from Bitseller to **Andtop Company**, an entity [formed](https://krebsonsecurity.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Andtop.pdf) (PDF) in the [Marshall Islands](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Islands) in Oct. 2020. The plaintiffs never re-filed their lawsuit. “That seemed to be their modus operandi,” said **Raj Parikh**, a partner at **PEM Law** in New Jersey who handles most of the Daniel’s Law litigation for Atlas. “In the past, they won by attrition. Plaintiffs’ attorneys tired of the procedural games and just gave up. That strategy worked for a decade, and it probably would have worked in this case too, since any financial recovery from foreign actors will be difficult. But we were acutely aware of the threat this website posed to law enforcement officers and other public officials in New Jersey, and decided early on to commit whatever time and resources were necessary to remove that threat.” On August 26, the judge in the New Jersey case found the defendants were given multiple chances to appear and defend the claims against them but had failed to do so. Mr. Gurvits declined to comment on the case, saying it had been assigned to another attorney, a **Mr. Victor Worms**. In response to questions, Mr. Worms asserted the New Jersey court transferred Radaris.com to Atlas as part of a default judgment against Radaris.com, which is not a legal entity. “We have made a motion to vacate that default judgment on the grounds that it is void since a non-entity has no legal capacity to sue or be sued,” Worms replied. “We also intend to pursue all appropriate appeals because we believe the transfer of Radaris.com amounts to a forfeiture in violation of various constitutional principles.” While radaris.com still comes up prominently in results when searching online for U.S. residents by name, the domain no longer sells detailed personal dossiers on millions of Americans. Its homepage now displays a notice from Atlas, as well as links to our previous reporting on Radaris. Atlas told KrebsOnSecurity that it has obtained more than 10,000 emails and documents in the course of litigation, and that those messages confirm our previous reporting on the owners and operators of Radaris and its myriad companies. Atlas said the emails clearly establish that the nominal legal vehicles — **Radaris America, Inc.**; **Bitseller Expert Limited**; **Digital Orbit Corp**; **Core Solutions Group Inc**; **Lucky Solutions Inc**; **Virtura Corp**; **Veripages Inc.**; **Nuform Solutions Inc.**; **Growth Data Advisors Inc.**; **Property Experts, Inc** — are all administered by the same three or four people from the same mailboxes, share one bank or payment card set, and are all managed from one virtual office address. “The corpus establishes, with documentary evidence generated independently by banks, payment processors, hosting providers, registrars, software-as-a-service vendors and the operators’ own systems, that radaris.com and at least twenty-five other people-search websites are one operation run by a small Boston-area group whose administrative, financial and technical functions sit on the difive.com mail domain and its successors (centerex.com, scienteco.com, eprofit.com, realmo.com, pub360.com),” reads a summary shared by Atlas. Atlas said the emails show Radaris.com earns approximately $42,000 a month, while Veripages.com earns around $45,000 monthly via its partnership with the **Lifetime Value Company**, a marketing and advertising firm whose brands include **PeopleLooker**, **PeopleSmart**, **NumberGuru**, and **Bumper**, a car history site. According to Atlas, the emails also showed the Radaris family of websites earns as much as $25,000 each month from their partnership with **Onerep**, a company that claims to help people remove their information from people-search sites. In March 2024, KrebsOnSecurity revealed how the Belarusian founder of Onerep had [launched and operated dozens of people-search sites](https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/03/ceo-of-data-privacy-company-onerep-com-founded-dozens-of-people-search-firms/) over the years and was continuing to operate one of them (Nuwber), effectively spreading the disease and selling the cure. All told, the New Jersey court has so far transferred 14 domain names from the Radaris family of companies to Atlas. Radaris.com now redirects to a notice of the court-ordered domain transfer. The Radaris family of companies is still potentially facing fines of $1,000 per alleged violation of Daniel’s Law. For the time being, however, Daniel’s Law is facing a constitutional challenge from virtually all of the 150 other consumer data broker firms being sued by Atlas. The data broker industry responded by having at least 70 of the Atlas lawsuits moved to federal court, challenging the New Jersey statute as overly broad and a violation of the First Amendment. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has not yet issued a decision on the constitutional challenge, but either way the case is widely expected to be appealed all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Meanwhile, at least 14 other states have now passed laws modeled after the New Jersey statute, with more states considering similar measures. However, West Virginia’s Daniel’s Law was [ruled facially unconstitutional](https://www.troutman.com/insights/west-virginias-daniels-law-held-facially-unconstitutional/) under the First Amendment by a federal district court in August 2025. **Justin Sherman** is a privacy expert and author of the forthcoming book “The Middlemen,” which examines how the data broker industry powers modern surveillance. Sherman said federal lawmakers have long faced intense lobbying by the technology industry against more restrictive U.S. data privacy laws, but that many powerful industries are now working against passing comprehensive data privacy legislation. “These days at the federal level, add in the intense amount of lobbying against these laws from social media companies, big tech, cryptocurrency firms, and now AI proponents in the mix who claim that limiting their data scraping is somehow going to collapse the whole U.S. economy under Chinese rule,” he said. Sherman said people-search companies will continue to thrive unless and until Congress enacts meaningful consumer privacy and data protection laws that are relevant to life in the 21st century. That’s because virtually all state privacy laws exempt records that might be considered “public” or “government” documents, including voting registries, property filings, marriage certificates, motor vehicle records, criminal records, court documents, death records, professional licenses, bankruptcy filings, and more. At least 25 states have passed or implemented laws requiring age verification for residents seeking to access adult content online, but there is no federal law that limits how the companies that are scanning everyone’s drivers license can use, share or keep the data provided. Had such restrictions been enshrined in law, we may have avoided [the recent breach at IDScan.net](https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/09/fbi-probes-service-selling-153m-drivers-licenses/), which exposed the drivers license information on more than 153 million Americans when the records were briefly turned into a point-and-click identity theft service on the dark web. “The average person can look at Daniel’s Law and have a perfectly normal reaction, which is that everyone should be covered, not just police and judges,” Sherman said. “But we don’t need more wake-up calls. We’ve had eight million wake-up calls already on the need for better privacy laws. The lack of comprehensive federal privacy law is not for a lack of knowledge, and anyone claiming otherwise is either not reading the news or kidding themselves.”