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title: "Njal.la"
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Corporations use offshore locations to bypass taxation, regulatory oversight, labour and environmental protections. In the web of the global economy, offshore havens are the nodes in the dark web for the rich and the powerful. Those contesting corporate and political power, risking surveillance, policing and repression, have no such recourse.

Njal.la sets this right, even if in a small way. It is a privacy-aware domain name registrar and hosting service, founded by the former Pirate Bay founder Peter Sunde and incorporated in the offshore haven Nevis. Njal.la asks for no more than an email to register a domain or run a server on behalf of a user. It also accepts payments in cryptocurrencies, preserving anonymity on that end as well.

Njal.la has a strong policy of not complying to takedown requests of any actor, be that police, corporations or corporate associations, before there is a bona fide court decision, resisting, for instance, the policing of knowledge and cultural sharing or political activism. This makes it no favorite among copyright enforcing bodies such as the Record Industry Association of America and the Motion Pictures Association of America.

However, while privacy-preserving, Njal.la has strong politics of its own with a history of banning Nazi’s, pornography and other socially abusive websites.