[NA-Discuss] OnlineNic's real address

[Danny Younger]

Cybersquatting registrar OnlineNic has gone out of its way to hide its primary business address.  On ICANN's list of accredited registrars it only posts this info:

Carrie Arden Tel: 510-769-8492

Google's residential phonebook shows this phone number registered to:
Rex Liu  2251 Mosley Ave,Alameda, CA 94501 

Rex is cited as an onlinenic technical contact here:  http://www.ratite.com/whois/whois.cgi?domain=registrar+ONLINENIC.
Hint:  note the large number of Xiamen, China phone numbers

Meanwhile, OnlineNic's support page provides a mailing address at 
351 Embarcadero E. 
Oakland, CA 94606  

Unfortunately, their office isn't there either -- for an investigative report (complete with pictures) see 
http://dotsnews.com/domain-name-news/184

So where is their primary place of business?  See the link below:

http://www.icann.org/en/tlds/pro1/pdf/rop_exhibit_a5.pdf