> They have to give their credentials to the hosting provider and to the DNS provider.
Back in the real world you don't need a hosting provider nor DNS to serve a website.
The following is a real address: http://123.234.34.56 (although it doesn't currently point to any real webserver)
You can probably trace the ISP it belongs to, but if that ISP is in another country than the regime you want to hide from, they need to launch a cross-country, international police-investigation, and possibly defend their claims through a trial, to get authorities in that country to force that ISP to divulge the identify of the customer at the other end of that IP.
Being able to serve websites anonymously, through plain HTTP and no hosting-partner DNS is a very real option. With today's high-speed internet connections it's a more real option than ever before.
Pretending this option doesn't exist doesn't lend your arguments any favour.
> You can probably trace the ISP it belongs to, but if that ISP is in another country than the regime you want to hide from, they need to launch a cross-country, international police-investigation, and possibly defend their claims through a trial, to get authorities in that country to force that ISP to divulge the identify of the customer at the other end of that IP.
Which is different from getting the identity of someone who registered a HTTPS certificate with a CA in another country how?
Back in the real world you don't need a hosting provider nor DNS to serve a website.
The following is a real address: http://123.234.34.56 (although it doesn't currently point to any real webserver)
You can probably trace the ISP it belongs to, but if that ISP is in another country than the regime you want to hide from, they need to launch a cross-country, international police-investigation, and possibly defend their claims through a trial, to get authorities in that country to force that ISP to divulge the identify of the customer at the other end of that IP.
Being able to serve websites anonymously, through plain HTTP and no hosting-partner DNS is a very real option. With today's high-speed internet connections it's a more real option than ever before.
Pretending this option doesn't exist doesn't lend your arguments any favour.