Court Seizes Radaris Domains in Data Broker Privacy Case

"We refer to this period as their island-hopping phase." — Matt Adkisson, Atlas Data Privacy Corp

Atlas Data Privacy Corp and Daniel’s Law

Atlas Data Privacy Corp sued Radaris in February 2024 under New Jersey's Daniel’s Law, a statute that requires commercial data brokers to remove personal information for state law enforcement officials, government personnel, judges and their families and carries fines of $1,000 per violation. Atlas re-filed an expanded complaint in June 2025 after accusing Radaris of using delaying tactics and shifting legal vehicles to frustrate service and judgment. The New Jersey judge found on August 26 that the defendants had repeatedly failed to appear and ordered the transfer of radaris.com and at least 13 other Radaris-related domains to Atlas.

How Radaris was tied to a small group of administrators

Atlas told KrebsOnSecurity it obtained more than 10,000 emails and documents during litigation. According to Atlas, those records show many nominal legal entities—Radaris America, Inc.; Bitseller Expert Limited; Digital Orbit Corp; Core Solutions Group Inc; and others—were administered from the same mailboxes, shared a bank or payment-card set, and were run from a single virtual office address. Atlas summarized that radaris.com and at least 25 other people-search websites were one operation run by a small Boston-area group whose administrative, financial and technical functions sat on the difive.com mail domain and successors including centerex.com and scienteco.com.

The Lubarsky brothers, the fake CEO, and prior court fights

Less than a month after Atlas sued, KrebsOnSecurity published reporting tying Radaris to co-founders Igor and Dmitry Lubarsky (also spelled Lybarsky), Russian-born brothers living in Massachusetts. The reporting, Atlas says, was corroborated by the email corpus. Radaris counsel Val Gurvits admitted the company had invented a CEO pseudonym, "Gary Norden," and that press releases had quoted the fictitious CEO while soliciting investment. The record also shows a history of litigation and domain-transfer fights: a 2017 default judgment initially resulted in an order directing Verisign to hand over radaris.com after plaintiffs said they could not collect on a $7.5 million judgment; that transfer was halted on appeal when attorneys argued the suit had not named the true owner, a Cyprus company called Bitseller Expert Limited. After that, the operator changed from Bitseller to Andtop Company, an entity formed in the Marshall Islands in October 2020.

Money flows, partnerships, and the business model

Atlas's documents place revenue figures on specific domains and partnerships. Radaris.com reportedly earned about $42,000 per month; Veripages.com around $45,000 monthly through a partnership with the Lifetime Value Company (whose brands include PeopleLooker, PeopleSmart, NumberGuru and Bumper). Atlas also said Radaris-family sites earned as much as $25,000 each month from a partnership with Onerep. KrebsOnSecurity's earlier reporting tied Onerep to a Belarusian founder who ran multiple people-search sites, including Nuwber, a detail Atlas cited as evidence of overlapping commercial strategies: selling exposure while offering paid removal services.

How technologists, policymakers, and the public are affected

• Technologists and security teams: the email and operational traces Atlas obtained—mail domains, payment-processor records and registrar data—underscore how forensic work against people-search networks can expose shared infrastructure and revenue streams, and provide evidence usable in court.
• Policymakers and regulators: Daniel’s Law has inspired at least 14 states to pass similar statutes, but the statute’s reach is being litigated—at least 70 Atlas suits were moved to federal court to challenge constitutionality, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit had not issued a decision at the time of reporting, and the matter is widely expected to reach the U.S. Supreme Court. Meanwhile, West Virginia’s version of Daniel’s Law was ruled facially unconstitutional under the First Amendment by a federal district court in August 2025.
• End users and the public: one concrete effect is that radaris.com no longer sells detailed dossiers; its homepage now displays a court-ordered notice from Atlas and links to the reporting. But Atlas warns that the family of sites remains exposed to potential statutory fines of $1,000 per alleged violation, and the broader commercial model—extracting public records and monetizing them—remains largely untouched at the federal level.

Radaris’s lawyers characterize the domain transfer as a default judgment against a non-entity and have moved to vacate the judgment and pursue appeals; one attorney on record is Victor Worms. Atlas says independent documentary evidence from banks, payment processors, hosting providers and registrars supports its view that the sites are a single operation run by a compact administrative group. For now, 14 Radaris-family domains have been transferred to Atlas, radaris.com redirects to Atlas’s notice, and the larger constitutional fight over Daniel’s Law is unresolved and likely headed for higher courts.

Link to original story: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/09/data-broker-radaris-loses-domains-in-privacy-fight/