RIP Radaris: Domain Seized, But The Network is Still Live.
What happened to Radaris?
On August 26, 2026, a New Jersey judge issued a default judgment in a Daniel's Law lawsuit brought by Atlas Data Privacy Corp, ordering radaris.com and 13 related data broker domains transferred to the plaintiffs. At least a dozen sister sites run by the same operation, including Veripages, weren't part of the order and are still live.
Radaris.com now shows a legal notice
Radaris has been on our site list since day one, and it’s always been one of the worst offenders. Members told us for years that opt-outs went nowhere, profiles reappeared, and support was a black hole. So when radaris.com started returning a legal notice instead of a search box in late August, we paid attention.
On September 16, Brian Krebs confirmed it. A New Jersey judge ordered radaris.com and 13 other data broker domains transferred to the plaintiffs after Radaris spent years dodging the case. The homepage now shows a notice from the new owner and links to the Krebs reporting.
One less bottom feeder to worry about. But as with ID True, GladiKnow and Spytox, and Curadvisor, one domain going dark rarely means the people behind it have quit.
Why did Radaris lose its domain?
The lawsuit came from Atlas Data Privacy Corp, a New Jersey company that brings Daniel's Law claims on behalf of thousands of covered people. Daniel's Law is a New Jersey statute that lets law enforcement officials, government personnel, judges and their families have their information removed from data brokers, with fines of $1,000 per violation for companies that ignore requests.
Case details:
Atlas Data Privacy Corporation, et al. v. Radaris.com, et al.
Superior Court of New Jersey, Law Division, Middlesex County
Docket No. MID-L-000847-24
Radaris handled it the way it has handled lawsuits for a decade:
2017: the first near miss. Radaris lost a $7.5 million class action by default, and the court ordered the domain transferred. Radaris got the order reversed by arguing the plaintiffs sued the wrong entity. The plaintiffs never refiled.
February 2024: Atlas sues Radaris. Within a month, Krebs publishes a deep dive identifying the co-founders as Igor and Dmitry Lubarsky, Russian-born brothers in Massachusetts running a large network of people search and dating sites. Their lawyers threaten to sue Krebs for defamation and claim the real owners are in Ukraine.
June 2024: Krebs shows the company built its public image around a made-up executive. Radaris's own attorney admitted his clients invented the pseudonym "Gary Norden," who had been quoted in press releases aimed at investors.
2024 to 2025: the shell game. Atlas's CEO described this as their "island-hopping phase," with privacy policies changing constantly and new entities appearing from the Marshall Islands, British Virgin Islands, and Seychelles. When Radaris claimed a Marshall Islands company was now managing the site, Atlas hired a local investigator and found the entity did not exist yet.
August 26, 2026: default judgment. The judge found the defendants had been given multiple chances to appear and defend the claims but failed to do so.
Stalling saved the domain in 2017. This time Atlas kept pushing through two years of shell companies, and the court ruled.
Who owns Radaris?
Krebs identified Radaris's co-founders as Igor and Dmitry Lubarsky, Russian-born brothers based in Massachusetts. Radaris's lawyers have claimed the real owners are in Ukraine, and the company has cycled through entities in the Marshall Islands, British Virgin Islands, and Seychelles. Atlas's evidence from the lawsuit points to a small Boston-area group running radaris.com and at least 25 other people search sites from the same mailboxes, payment cards, and virtual office.
Is Radaris really gone? Which sister sites are still active?
We said this about ID True and we’ll keep saying it: a dead domain is not deleted data. With Radaris, it’s worse than that. Most of the operation is still open for business.
The court moved 14 domains to Atlas, including Rehold and Trustoria alongside radaris.com. But Atlas's own evidence, more than 10,000 emails and documents obtained in litigation, ties radaris.com and at least 25 other people search websites to one operation run by a small Boston-area group sharing the same mailboxes, payment cards, and virtual office. Well over a dozen sites in the same family were untouched by this order and are still live.
Veripages, the network's biggest earner, is one of the survivors. It makes around $45,000 a month, more than radaris.com did, through a partnership with the Lifetime Value Company, whose brands include PeopleLooker, PeopleSmart, NumberGuru, and Bumper. Veripages was not transferred. Your Radaris profile was built from the same data pipeline that still feeds Veripages today.
Did OneRep have a financial relationship with Radaris?
According to Atlas, the Radaris family of sites earned as much as $25,000 a month from a partnership with OneRep, a data removal service. We wrote about OneRep in 2024 when Krebs exposed the OneRep founder's history running people search sites. Now we know one of the brokers OneRep charged customers to remove them from was also getting paid by OneRep. If your removal service has a revenue relationship with the broker, you aren’t the customer.
Google still sends people there, too. Radaris.com still shows up prominently when you search for U.S. residents by name. The page behind the link is gone, but the result is a reminder that de-indexing is a separate job from opt-outs.
Does Daniel's Law protect regular people?
No. Daniel's Law protects police, judges, prosecutors, and their families, not the general public. It also might not survive. The broker industry has moved at least 70 of the Atlas lawsuits to federal court on First Amendment grounds, and the case is expected to reach the Supreme Court. West Virginia's version was already ruled unconstitutional in August 2025. Radaris's lawyer has said it intends to appeal and get the domain back.
What does this mean for Kanary members?
Radaris lost because someone with resources refused to quit. Most people can’t afford a two-year lawsuit, and even the people who could only took down half the network. That’s why the day-to-day work still matters. Every opt-out, every de-index request, every reported exposure costs these sites time and money. That steady pressure is what made ID True's owner sell and what made the Atlas case winnable.
Removal alone isn't the whole answer, though. When the same group can spin up a new domain in a new jurisdiction faster than a court can take one away, it helps if the data that stays online is unreliable. Our founder, Rachel covered this at HOPE 26 in Poisoning the Well: How Decoys and Misdirection Protect Privacy When Opting Out Isn't Enough. If Radaris ever had your address, it's a good place to start.
You don't need to track which Radaris domain is up this week. We do that for you.
The whole network is covered. Veripages and the rest of the family were already on our list. We’re cross-referencing the entity list from the Atlas filings against our coverage and adding anything we were missing.
If radaris.com comes back, we'll know. We’ve marked it as transferred, not removed. If it returns to the Lubarskys on appeal, monitoring resumes and your removals restart automatically. No action needed from you.
Rebrands get caught. This group has changed names, owners, and countries every time it got cornered. When a broker hops domains, we detect it and start the removal over.
Stale Google results get de-indexed. Radaris links are still in Google even though the pages are gone. We push those out as part of your regular scans, because a stale link still tells someone where you lived.
Decoys, for when removal isn't enough. For members facing real risk, our Advanced tier includes decoy information setup so the data that does surface is unreliable. Rachel's HOPE talk explains how it works.
Questions? Reach out at [email protected].
Further reading:
Brian Krebs, Data Broker Radaris Loses Domains in Privacy Fight and A Close Up Look at the Consumer Data Broker Radaris.
Kanary, RIP ID True, GladiKnow and Spytox Go Dark, Curadvisor: From Data Broker to Gambling Website, OneRep: What Happened?
