: The Whois privacy is barely a protection - most registrars will surrender your personal details at the first request. Well, perhaps at the second. Anyway, the point is, they are generally unwilling

The Whois privacy is barely a protection - most registrars will surrender your personal details at the first request. Well, perhaps at the second. Anyway, the point is, they are generally unwilling to take risk and get under fire so they won't bother to investigate who is right and who is wrong for a client that perhaps only brings /month of revenues.

Your one option includes registering under fake name with fake address details. That will have the risk of you losing your domain name one day if they decided to validate your personality and contact details by calling your phone or mailing to your address.
A more reliable and a long-term option includes registering an offshore company and running your site in its name. There are ways of keeping the list of owners (or at least the list of beneficiaries) very private so that even investigations at the government level may turn empty. The "/year" however won't cut it, you'll need a few thousands per year to make this work. Good news, there are service companies which will do this for you so you won't even have to fly to another country.

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