Domain privacy is an annoying and complicated thing. U.S. registrar-based whois anonymity crumbles with a court order or even just a legal nastygram. Obfuscating your whois is usually against the terms of service. Many top-level domains require a real, contactable, legal entity — you! — to be there in black and white. Njalla offers to solve the problem by registering and owning the domain on your behalf.
We care about your right to privacy. We believe it’s an important piece of democracy that we have the right to be anonymous.
Njalla was started because we couldn’t find a domain name service that we ourselves wanted to use. Our goals are to be caring about privacy, simple and flexible.
When you buy a domain in our system, we’re actually purchasing it for ourselves. We will be the actual owners of the domain, it’s not an ownership by proxy as found with all other providers. However, you will still have the full control over the domain name. You can either use our information, our nameservers or you can go with your custom data.
If you ever want to move the domain from our system, we’ll of course give you the domain without any additional costs.
I guess it comes down to whether you trust registrars and TLD operators less than you trust an EU-based startup. Has anyone got any experience or expertise to share?