Radaris Loses 14 Domains in Daniel's Law Privacy Fight

For years, Radaris treated removal requests the way it treated lawsuits: as something to outlast. That habit just cost it the storefront. Radaris.com now shows a notice of court ordered transfer instead of dossiers on strangers, and KrebsOnSecurity reported on September 16, 2026 that 14 domains from the Radaris family of people search sites have moved to Atlas, which enforces New Jersey's Daniel's Law against data brokers.

Key Takeaways

• The Superior Court of New Jersey in Middlesex County entered a final default judgment against Radaris.com, Rehold.com and Trustoria.com on August 27, 2026, and 14 Radaris family domains have been transferred to Atlas Data Privacy Corp so far.
• Atlas sued on claims assigned by about 21,760 New Jersey covered persons, and says more than 10,000 emails and documents show radaris.com and at least 25 other people search sites run as one operation. Source: KrebsOnSecurity
• Victor Worms, Radaris's new attorney, has moved to vacate the judgment, arguing radaris.com is not a legal entity and the transfer is an unconstitutional forfeiture.
• The New Jersey Supreme Court held on August 12, 2026 that Daniel's Law requires no mental state for actual damages claims, while the law's First Amendment challenge still awaits a Third Circuit ruling.

Why Did Radaris Lose Its Domains?

Radaris lost its domains because it never mounted a real defense, and the court entered a default judgment against it. Atlas sued on February 8, 2024 and amended its complaint on May 27, 2025, according to the transfer notice now posted on radaris.com. The judge found the defendants had multiple chances to appear and defend but failed to, KrebsOnSecurity reported. Radaris's lawyers surfaced only at the last minute, arguing Atlas had not served the real owners.

The judgment awards seizure of the domain "to effectuate the purposes of Daniel's Law." It also bars the defendants and "all persons in concert" with them from publishing covered persons' data through "any subdomains, affiliated domains or sites" they control.

What Is Daniel's Law, and Who Does It Cover?

Daniel's Law, N.J.S.A. 56:8-166.1, lets New Jersey judges, prosecutors, law enforcement officers and their families force data brokers to stop publishing their home addresses and unpublished home phone numbers. The state's Office of Information Privacy handles the government side. The law passed in 2020 after the targeted murder of Daniel Anderl, son of U.S. District Judge Esther Salas.

Brokers get ten business days after a removal request, and each violation carries $1,000 plus possible punitive damages. Covered people can assign their claims to a third party. That clause is how one company sues for 21,760 people at once, and Krebs counts about 150 other data broker firms facing Atlas suits.

Who Actually Runs Radaris?

KrebsOnSecurity identified the operators as Igor and Dmitry Lubarsky, Russian born brothers living in Massachusetts, in a March 2024 investigation. Their lawyer threatened a defamation suit, then conceded that the company's CEO, "Gary Norden," was "a pseudonym invented by the Radaris marketing division."

"We refer to this period as their island-hopping phase," Atlas CEO Matt Adkisson told Krebs, describing entities that "kept appearing from places like the Marshall Islands, the British Virgin Islands, and Seychelles."

Atlas says the emails it obtained show ten nominal companies, including Bitseller Expert Limited and Veripages, run by the same three or four people on one set of bank or payment cards. By Atlas's count, radaris.com earned about $42,000 a month, and the network earned as much as $25,000 a month from a partnership with Onerep, a paid people search removal service.

Why Does Losing a Domain Hurt More Than a Fine?

Because a money judgment against offshore shells may never be paid, while a .com name sits with a registry that a U.S. court can order to move it. A 2014 Fair Credit Reporting Act class action, Huebner v. Radaris, produced a $7.5 million default judgment the plaintiffs could not collect, so the court ordered Verisign to transfer radaris.com, Krebs documented. In 2018 Radaris reclaimed it by arguing the true owner, Cyprus based Bitseller Expert Limited, was never named.

"In the past, they won by attrition," Atlas attorney Raj Parikh told Krebs.

If each of the 21,760 assigned claims counted as one $1,000 violation, damages would reach $21.76 million, roughly 43 years of radaris.com revenue at Atlas's estimate. The domain transfer skips collection.

The defense still sounds like 2018: Worms argues "a non-entity has no legal capacity to sue or be sued." For compliance teams, the lesson is that Daniel's Law remedies can reach infrastructure, and New Jersey brokers also answer to the state's new A5328 data broker law.

Could the Constitutional Challenge Undo It?

It could. Brokers moved at least 70 Atlas suits to federal court, arguing Daniel's Law is overbroad and violates the First Amendment. A district judge let those cases proceed in 2024 while noting the law would likely be unconstitutional as a strict liability statute, Klein Moynihan Turco noted. In September 2025 the Third Circuit asked New Jersey's top court what mental state the statute requires.

On August 12, 2026, the New Jersey Supreme Court answered that the law "contains no mental state requirement" for actual damages claims. Compare West Virginia, where a federal court held the state's version facially unconstitutional in August 2025 because it lacked any mechanism "such as a notice requirement or knowledge element." New Jersey's law at least requires a removal request first. Whether that step saves it is now the open question, and at least 14 other states have passed laws modeled on it.

What This Means for Your Inbox

Radaris reports bundled current and past addresses, phone numbers, relatives and "known email addresses," Krebs found in 2024. Once your email sits on the same report as your home address, your online accounts are tied to your front door for anyone who pays.

Email cut the other way too. Krebs unmasked "Gary Norden" by tracing his email addresses through domain registration records. One was tied to 137 domains, and the same set linked to rehold.com and trustoria.com, two defendants in this judgment. A reused address is a join key for brokers and investigators alike. Even California's DROP platform tells users that adding a new email address to their profile can produce better deletion results.

How Do You Get Off People Search Sites Without Daniel's Law?

You opt out site by site and keep checking, because most Americans lack the removal right Daniel's Law gives New Jersey officers.

• Search yourself, then opt out. The FTC advises finding your report on each site and following its opt out link, or searching the site's name plus "opt out." Brokers have been caught hiding opt out pages from Google.
• Use an email alias. Radaris's removal process required creating an account, Krebs found. Give brokers a forwarding alias, not your primary address, so opting out does not hand them a fresh identifier.
• In California, file one DROP request. Since August 1, 2026, registered brokers must process DROP deletions on a rolling 45 day cycle. Here is what the DROP deadline changed.
• Recheck every few months. The FTC warns your details can reappear when public records change and can linger in relatives' reports.
• Vet paid removal services. Ask how many sites they cover and whether they send removal reports.

The Storefront Is Gone. The Data Isn't.

Radaris.com no longer sells dossiers, but Atlas's evidence describes at least 25 more sites run by the same people, and Worms has promised appeals. "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," privacy expert Justin Sherman told KrebsOnSecurity. Until that happens, everyone else files the forms.