HavenCo

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HavenCo
IndustryComputer industry
Founded2000
Defunct2008, revived circa 2013
FateDefunct
Headquarters
England, Principality of Sealand (unrecognized)
Key people
Michael Bates, Sean Hastings, Ryan Donald Lackey
ServicesWeb hosting service, Internet service provider
ParentPrincipality of Sealand
Websitehttps://www.havenco.com/

HavenCo Limited was a data haven, data hosting services company, founded in 2000 to operate from Sealand, a self-declared unrecognized principality that occupied Roughs Tower. In November 2008, operations of HavenCo ceased without explanation.[1][2]

Founding

On 22 August 2000, Michael Bates of Leigh-on-sea, Essex- also known as Prince Michael of Sealand- bought a dormant British company which was renamed HavenCo Limited. It was given the registration number of 04056934 by Companies House, an executive agency of the UK Department of Trade and Industry. The registered office of HavenCo Limited was recorded at 11 Kintyre House, Cold Harbour, London, E14 9NL England. The directors were listed as Michael Roy Bates, a citizen of the United Kingdom, who was named Chief Operating Officer, and Ryan Donald Lackey, a US citizen. Other founders included Sean Hastings, Jo Hastings, Avi Freedman, and Sameer Parekh was an advisor to the company. The company later relocated its registration to Cyprus.[3] HavenCo initially received broad coverage in the international media, appearing on the cover of Wired Magazine, in over 200 press articles, and in several television reports. In these reports, HavenCo claimed to have established a secure colocation facility on Sealand, and that it had commenced operations as a data haven. Detractors claim that these reports gave the impression that HavenCo was registered on Sealand itself, and that the company would issue domain names under the authority of that entity, whereas it had no entitlement to do so.[citation needed]

Services

Ryan Lackey left HavenCo under acrimonious circumstances in 2002, citing disagreements with the Bates family over management of the company. The HavenCo website went offline in 2008.[4] In 2013, Freedman announced plans for HavenCo to resume operation: offering proxies, VPNs, and other services using servers in the European Union and the United States, while storing encryption keys and other cold data in Sealand.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "HavenCo "data center" offline?". Security and the Net. November 18, 2008. Archived from the original on January 22, 2009. Retrieved November 24, 2008.
  2. ↑ "Offshore hosting firm HavenCo lost at sea". The Register. November 25, 2008. Archived from the original on August 10, 2017. Retrieved August 10, 2017.
  3. ↑ Lackey, R. HavenCo: what really happened Archived 2011-07-23 at the Wayback Machine p.19, DEF CON, August 3, 2003, retrieved September 11, 2010
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Stackpole, Thomas (Aug 21, 2013). "The World's Most Notorious Micronation Has the Secret to Protecting Your Data From the NSA". Mother Jones. San Francisco. Archived from the original on 2019-02-22. Retrieved 2014-02-17.

Further reading

  • Anderson, Nate. The Internet Police: How Crime Went Online, and the Cops Followed. W. W. Norton & Company, 2013.

External links

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