Blog Confused by Moniker Privacy Services, Connects it to Child Porn — Doh! Miami

Blogger doesn’t understand what Moniker Privacy Services is — and suggests the firm is profiting off of child porn.

I’ve stated many times that offering whois privacy or proxy services isn’t free. Here’s another example.

A blog post on Miami Fresh Times states that Moniker Privacy Services:

has registered at least five porn sites still featuring the video and X-rated screenshots — seven months following a family member left comments on the sites warning: “This is child pornography and your site can and will face charges!”

The sites in question supposedly host a porn video with an underage star.

Of course Moniker Privacy Services is just a whois proxy service. But technically it is the registrant of the domain names.

The blog suggests that Moniker is a shady firm, and states that it managed to “track down” the owners. The owners, of course, are Oversee.net.

It promises to expose more regarding the firm:

Tomorrow, we’ll bring you more information on Moniker Privacy Services, one of the dirtiest internet-based firms we’ve encountered — and that’s saying a lot

My guess is the authors don’t realize what Moniker Privacy Services is.

That stated, this is another example of how offering a privacy or proxy service isn’t free. It’s also a perfect example of why these services need to have a process for handling complaints. Go Daddy, for example, immediately unmasks the whois in the case of a dispute.

Moniker Privacy Services has been pulled into extensive lawsuits ahead of, counting one with Transamerica.