Hosting Advice for Consumer Advocacy Websites?

rcthompson asks: "I host a web site with information about fraudulent career marketing companies, but over the past year it has been repeatedly deleted by a series of hosting companies after they received a threatening letter from the lawyer for one of the companies listed on the web site. Are there any hosting companies out there who are involved or interested in consumer advocacy and will not delete a web site just because they receive a threatening letter? Is it better to use overseas hosting companies? Is there any way to completely hide who your hosting company is so that the bad guys cannot figure out who to send the threatening letter to? One could host the web site on one's own server and use one's own nameservers, but the IP address will reveal your ISP who could possibly shut down your site. Any advice is appreciated. Thanks."

Comments

EFF

[littlerubberfeet]

those guys at the EFF might be willing to lend a hand and a bit of server room...If you truly are an advocacy and information clearinghouse site.

Re:Sealand-based HavenCo

[novakreo]

Sealand isn't a real country, so no, they don't have their own ccTLD.

Neither are a number of places with their own ccTLD. Off the top of my head, the Cocos Islands (.cc), Christmas Island (the infamous .cx), and the Heard and McDonald Islands (.hm) (all part of Australia) come to mind... have a look here for more info.

So why shouldn't Sealand get their own ccTLD?

Re:Sealand-based HavenCo

[syrinx]

Actually that's very true. I was just looking at that the other day.. plenty more too.. Guam (.gu), Puerto Rico (.pr), CNMI (.nm) are all US Commonwealths.. Ascension Island (.ac) is British.. Antarctica (.aq) isn't a country.

So maybe there is precedent then. ;)

I think what I was getting at more is that the UK and US don't recognize Sealand as anything more than an abandoned UK fort. So it would surprise me if they got a ccTLD.