A New Jersey judge orders radaris.com and a dozen sibling domains handed to the plaintiffs

Collecting money from Radaris is the part that has never worked. Matt Adkisson, president and CEO of Atlas Data Privacy Corp, told KrebsOnSecurity that the entity carrying the liability kept changing. "We refer to this period as their island-hopping phase. Privacy policies changed constantly, and new entities kept appearing from places like the Marshall Islands, the British Virgin Islands, and Seychelles," Adkisson said ^[13]. "Behind the scenes, it felt like a shell game. Defense lawyers told the court that certain entities merely operated the domains and were the proper parties to sue. But by the time a judgment neared, those entities would be discarded and new entities would appear," he said ^[14].

When the Radaris terms of service were updated to say the company was managed from the Marshall Islands, Atlas hired an investigator there ^[21]. Adkisson said the brand new entity named as the manager did not exist yet ^[15].

A domain sits in a registry, and a court can order the registry to move it. Radaris has been through that once already. Plaintiffs in a 2017 class action the company never contested could not collect a $7.5 million default judgment, and the court ordered Verisign to transfer radaris.com to them ^[16]. Val Gurvits appealed, arguing the suit had not named the domain's actual owner, a Cyprus company called Bitseller Expert Limited, and that taking the name would violate its due process rights ^[17]. The judge ruled for Radaris and halted the transfer ^[18].

The new order faces the same argument. Radaris's attorneys waited until the last minute to appear and contest what was headed for a default judgment, then told the court that Atlas had failed to serve the real owners and operators ^[11]. Sixteen months separate Atlas's original February 2024 complaint from its June 2025 refiling ^[19]. KrebsOnSecurity did not report the date of the transfer order or the size of the judgment behind it ^[22].

Radaris's lawyers also threatened to sue KrebsOnSecurity for defamation over its reporting on the co-founders unless the story was removed and an apology issued, asserting the reporting was wildly inaccurate and that the true owners were Ukrainians living in Ukraine ^[8]. The reporting identified Igor and Dmitry Lubarsky, Russian-born brothers living in Massachusetts who run an array of people-search companies along with Russian-language dating services and affiliate programs ^[7]. Radaris issued multiple press releases over the years quoting its invented CEO while seeking money from potential investors ^[10].

The statute is narrow. Daniel's Law lets New Jersey law enforcement officials, government personnel, judges and their families have their information removed from commercial data brokers and people-search services, and sets fines of $1,000 per violation against companies that ignore removal requests ^[5].