The reasons are plenty, free speech, regulation and even criminal (piratebay?)
How can one register a domain anonymously and host a site without anyone being able to trace the owner's identity ?
Ask HN: How to create an anonymous site?
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Re: Ask HN: How to create an anonymous site?
#2Here are a couple of interesting links:
To answer your questions - you can buy domain for bitcoins and use some free hosting like Wordpress or Github Pages.
Re: Ask HN: How to create an anonymous site?
#3Don't.
More specifically, if you truly care for anonymity, you won't be using a plain DNS+Web site. Instead, you should go for Freenet [1] or a Tor-hosted website [2].
[1] https://freenetproject.org/
[2] https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-hidden-service.html.en
Re: Ask HN: How to create an anonymous site?
#4If you need to ask these questions you are not qualified to run such a site, or at least not to ask anyone else to trust that you are not going to screw up when setting it up or at some point in the future and break anonymity. The more you move away from "free speech" to avoiding regulation and toward criminal activity the greater the chance that someone out there will actually try to see how good you really are, and then your whole house of cards will fall down. Seriously, don't.
Re: Ask HN: How to create an anonymous site?
#5The untraceableblog.com below is a great resource.
However, in the end, there is always text analysis though that can give your identity away, which the untraceable blog does not address.
That's why you possibly need a ghost writer that you provide with a script or a robot audio recording if you want to go 100% sure. You need to be able to trust your ghostwriter a 100% though then. :)
Re: Ask HN: How to create an anonymous site?
#6If you need to ask these questions you are not qualified to run such a site, or at least not to ask anyone else to trust that you are not going to screw up when setting it up or at some point in the future and break anonymity. The more you move away from "free speech" to avoiding regulation and toward criminal activity the greater the chance that someone out there will actually try to see how good you really are, and…
From the way the question was phrased, I think this is precisely for learning how to do such things. You still need to start somewhere, and as long as you know you should not take inconsiderate risks, you can screw up sometimes and learn from your errors.
Re: Ask HN: How to create an anonymous site?
#7The untraceableblog.com below is a great resource. However, in the end, there is always text analysis though that can give your identity away, which the untraceable blog does not address. That's why you possibly need a ghost writer that you provide with a script or a robot audio recording if you want to go 100% sure. You need to be able to trust your ghostwriter a 100% though then. :)
It is addressed under the section "Word and character frequency analysis".
He runs his posts through google translate to another language, and then back to english.
Re: Ask HN: How to create an anonymous site?
#81. Buy BTC with cash
2. Buy a domain with BTC via Tor
3. Buy hosting with BTC via Tor
4. Do not accidentally leak your identity in one of million possible ways
#1-3 are pretty easy, but #4 is next to impossible. If nobody cares about you there might be some small room for error. But generally it takes one smallest mistake and you are ultimately busted.
Re: Ask HN: How to create an anonymous site?
#9Maybe someone with experience of such hosting?
Like: http://www.nearlyfreespeech.net
I should add: Goes under US Law, so forget pirating or illegal content.
Re: Ask HN: How to create an anonymous site?
#10if you host it yourself, don't forget to clean up your access logs. you might want to actually fill them with invalid data, rather than completely deleting them.