A New Jersey court has ordered the transfer of radaris.com and more than a dozen other data broker domains to Atlas Data Privacy Corp, the plaintiff in a lawsuit alleging the people-search operator violated a state privacy statute. The August 26 ruling came after the judge found the defendants were given multiple opportunities to appear and defend the claims against them but did not do so. The case centers on Daniel's Law, which lets state law enforcement officials, government personnel, judges and their families have their information removed from commercial data brokers.
Atlas, which has pursued data brokers accused of violating the statute, first sued Radaris in February 2024. The law provides for fines of $1,000 per violation against companies that ignore removal requests. Radaris has long had a reputation for disregarding requests to remove personal information from its people-search services. Atlas re-filed the lawsuit in June 2025, expanding the number of Radaris family data brokers accused of violations.
Matt Adkisson, president and CEO of Atlas, described what he called a delaying playbook and shell games over Radaris's true country of origin and the individuals listed as owners. He said privacy policies changed constantly while new entities appeared from places such as the Marshall Islands, the British Virgin Islands and Seychelles, and that entities would be discarded as judgments neared. Raj Parikh, a partner at PEM Law in New Jersey who handles most of the Daniel's Law litigation for Atlas, said the company previously won by attrition but that Atlas committed whatever time and resources were needed to remove the threat.
The dispute follows a 2017 class action in which Radaris temporarily lost by default. Plaintiffs told the judge they could not collect on a $7.5 million default judgment, and the court ordered the domain registry Verisign to transfer radaris.com to them. Radaris attorney Val Gurvits appealed, arguing the suit had not named the actual owner, a Cyprus company called Bitseller Expert Limited, and that the transfer would violate due process. The judge halted the transfer and allowed the plaintiffs to refile, which they never did; the operator later changed from Bitseller to Andtop Company.
Radaris's current attorney, Victor Worms, said the court transferred radaris.com as part of a default judgment against Radaris.com, which he said is not a legal entity. He said the company filed a motion to vacate the judgment as void and intends to pursue appeals, arguing the transfer amounts to a forfeiture violating constitutional principles. Gurvits declined to comment and said the case had been assigned to Worms.
Radaris.com no longer sells detailed personal dossiers; its homepage displays an Atlas notice and links to prior reporting on the company. Atlas said it obtained more than 10,000 emails and documents confirming that nominal entities including Radaris America, Bitseller Expert Limited, Digital Orbit Corp, Core Solutions Group Inc, Lucky Solutions Inc, Virtura Corp, Veripages Inc, Nuform Solutions Inc, Growth Data Advisors Inc and Property Experts, Inc are administered by the same three or four people from the same mailboxes, share one bank or payment card set and are managed from one virtual office address. Atlas said the records show radaris.com and at least twenty-five other people-search websites are one operation earning approximately $42,000 a month from radaris.com and around $45,000 monthly from Veripages.com through a partnership with the Lifetime Value Company, whose brands include PeopleLooker, PeopleSmart, NumberGuru and Bumper.
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