Know Your Customer (KYC) requirements in domain registration force you to hand over sensitive personal documents - passports, driver's licenses, utility bills, and selfies - to companies that store this data on servers vulnerable to breaches. Major registrars have suffered data breaches exposing millions of customer records, turning KYC compliance into an identity theft risk for their users.
Beyond breach risks, KYC data creates a permanent record linking your legal identity to your domain portfolio. This information can be subpoenaed, shared with law enforcement across jurisdictions, or accessed by registrar employees. For individuals in sensitive situations - journalists, activists, domestic abuse survivors - this exposure can have serious real-world consequences.
AnubizHost rejects the premise that domain registration should require identity verification. The technical process of pointing a domain name to an IP address has no legitimate need for your passport. We have built our registration system to operate without KYC while remaining compliant with applicable ICANN policies through our offshore jurisdiction structure.