The Pirate Bay founder has launched a new service to register domain names anonymously: https://njal.la/. You can sign up using XMPP+OTR and pay in BTC. The company buys the domain and then gives you the usage rights.

Seems useful mainly for people worried about content takedowns.

Thoughts?

@bcrypt not sure if this possible point was brought up or not, but:

given that you need a XMPP+OTR and bitcoin wallet, and I assume that they need to remain knowledgeable of that info to be able to bill you, a court could come in and order the company to hand over the information for the purposes of investigation, even if that information is not immediately identifiable

and even then, once you have the domain name, what's to stop someone from identifying you via ping? or port enumeration?