One of the web’s most prolific people-search services has lost control of its primary domain after years of ignoring court-sanctioned removal requests. A New Jersey judge ordered the transfer of radaris.com and more than a dozen affiliated data broker domains to the plaintiffs in a lawsuit brought under Daniel’s Law — a New Jersey statute that gives state law enforcement officers, judges, and their families the right to have their personal information scrubbed from commercial data brokers. Fines under the law run to $1,000 per violation, and Radaris accumulated them by stonewalling removal requests at every turn.
The lawsuit was filed in February 2024 by Atlas Data Privacy Corp, a company that has been pursuing data brokers accused of violating Daniel’s Law at scale. Radaris’s co-founders — Igor and Dmitry Lubarsky, Russian-born brothers living in Massachusetts — fought the case through an escalating series of legal maneuvers. They invented a fictitious CEO named “Gary Norden” and issued years of press releases quoting the fake executive while soliciting investor money. When a judgment loomed, the controlling entities would be quietly swapped for shell companies registered in the Marshall Islands, the British Virgin Islands, or the Seychelles. Atlas hired a local investigator in the Marshall Islands and found that the supposedly managing entity listed by Radaris did not even exist yet. When Radaris temporarily lost a separate class action in 2017 by failing to contest it, that court also ordered the domain transferred via Verisign — a playbook the company had apparently not learned from. Atlas re-filed and dramatically expanded its lawsuit in June 2025. The final court order now strips Radaris of radaris.com and the broader network of people-search properties tied to the Lubarsky operation.