Radaris Domains Seized in New Jersey Privacy Showdown

Radaris domains transferred after New Jersey privacy ruling

The judge ordered the Radaris.com name and more than a dozen sister sites to be handed over to plaintiff Atlas Data Privacy, citing repeated violations of New Jersey’s Daniel’s Law. Within the first 100 words we mention that the Radaris domains were stripped from the broker after it ignored removal requests from law‑enforcement officials.

Atlas sued the Boston‑based data broker in February 2024, alleging the firm flouted a statute that imposes a ↓ $1,000 fine per infraction for publishing personal data of police, judges and their families. The lawsuit uncovered a maze of shell companies – Bitseller Expert Limited, Andtop Company, and others – all pointing to the Lubarsky brothers, Russian‑born entrepreneurs operating from a virtual office in Massachusetts.

“They kept shifting the corporate veneer from the Marshall Islands to the Seychelles, hoping the courts would lose track,” said Atlas CEO Matt Adkisson.

Shell‑company tactics expose legal loopholes

When the defense finally appeared, counsel Val Gurvits claimed the real owner was a Cyprus entity, prompting a brief 2017 default judgment that was later vacated. The latest ruling, however, left the Radaris domains in Atlas’s control, and the homepage now displays a notice of the court order alongside links to prior investigative reports.

Financial disclosures obtained by Atlas show the flagship site pulls roughly ↑ $42,000 a month, while a sister platform, Veripages.com, nets about $45,000 monthly through a partnership with the Lifetime Value Company. Both sites also earn an estimated $25,000 each month from a deal with Onerep, a “removal” service whose founder was exposed in a March 2024 investigation.

The case arrives as more than 70 data‑broker suits have been moved to federal court, challenging the constitutionality of Daniel’s Law. The Third Circuit has yet to rule, but a Supreme Court review appears inevitable. Meanwhile, at least 14 other states are drafting copycat statutes, even as West Virginia’s version was struck down as facially unconstitutional.

For a broader view of how pandemic‑era data collection fuels these disputes, see our analysis. Reuters and AP News continue to track the legislative fallout.

Correction: An earlier dispatch misstated the year of the initial default judgment, which occurred in 2017, not 2016.

Intel provided by: Leo Carmichael

Special Assignments Reporter
(Note: Leo Carmichael is covering this desk while Kaelen Frost is on annual vacation.)