Radaris, the consumer data broker long criticised for ignoring removal requests, has lost its primary domains after a New Jersey lawsuit alleging it violated Daniel's Law — a state statute that entitles law enforcement officials, government personnel, judges and their families to have their information removed from commercial data brokers and people-search services, with fines of $1,000 per violation against companies that ignore removal requests. Facing what the reporting describes as repeated stonewalling and prevarication by Radaris's attorneys, the judge ordered that radaris.com and more than a dozen other data-broker domains be transferred to the plaintiffs, Atlas Data Privacy Corp, which has been pursuing brokers under the statute since at least February 2024. Radaris's litigation playbook is documented: its attorneys appeared at the last minute to contest an all-but-certain default judgment and told the court Atlas had failed to serve the real owners and operators, leading Atlas to re-file in June 2025 with a dramatically expanded list of Radaris-family data brokers accused of violating the law. The case follows this digest's earlier coverage of the same company — reporting into the Russian-born Lubarsky brothers who operate the Radaris network of people-search services, and Radaris's use of the invented CEO pseudonym "Gary Norden" in press releases seeking investor money, a pseudonym its own attorney admitted to. The enforcement significance is that domain transfer, rather than a fine, is being used as the remedy against a broker whose business is the domain's index position and traffic — a materially harder penalty to litigate around than a per-violation fee.

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