they say "the server company for
www.whospackingny.com has told the association that it doesn't know who launched the website."Dont people have to register to put up web sites? Maybe that should be public information. Put his address up for criminals to see.
Its a domain registered and forwarded to the Google sites page "http://sites.google.com/site/nymasterpistoldb/"
There is no contact information provided on the website. However the domain is registered with 1&1 Hosting, one of the largest hosting companies on the internet. The nameservers are set to ns51.1and1.com and ns52.1and1.com updated as of the 19th of June, 2010. The domain was originally registered on the 26th of April, 2010. Normally these nameservers being pointed to the 51st and 52nd server(s) of 1&1's network would indicate that a website could have at one point in time been created and hosted on their network corresponding with the domain in question, but this may not have been the case. At this time the content is is hosted through Google sites and only uses a domain for the simplicity of accessing the site.
The domains owner is unknown and they probably opted in for an ID protection plan on their registration contact info.
You might be able to get a few scraps of information by filing a Freedom of Information Law request.
The Records Access Officer
New York State Police
1220 Washington Avenue
State Campus, Building 22
Albany, New York 12226
Another forum has a user suggesting that a request can be made to disclose anyone who has filed a request to get the names of everyone who has asked for that list from the month of March to present. Looking for names that appear on a recurring basis could narrow down the results further, especially if they are consistent with the date stamps on the official list published by whospackingny.com.
Further research has an unconfirmed claim by another user of another forum that mentioned his experience trying to access whospackingny.com actually redirected him to a site by the designation of cryptome.org. Cryptome.org is a known organization for the release of detailed information that some agencies or authorities may treat with inter-agency information security protocols being flagged as "sensitive" or "priviliged". Looking into Cryptome.org produced the following information -
Admin ID:24163306-NSI
Admin Name:Cryptome
Admin Organization:Cryptome
Admin Street1:251 West 89th Street
Admin Street2:
Admin Street3:
Admin City:New York
Admin State/Province:NY
Admin Postal Code:10024
Admin Country:US
A vague shot in the dark but its a New York organization, with a New York address and a consistent M.O. with the principle of Freedom of Information. In my personal judgment this is enough to articulate suspicion of a potential connection with whospackingny.com. There is also a release of the registration roster on Cryptome.org, 110mb.com and Archive.org (which I have reason to believe Archive.org may have removed the content from its database out of respect or legal concerns).
To have the content removed or concealed from being easily accessed you could consider the following ethical approaches:
1. Send formal complaints to the distributors or hosts that are providing this content (at the service provider level, using the abuse department if available and quoting any violations of their Acceptable Usage Policy/Terms of Service).
2. Petition the providers that host the material to have it removed.
Then there are less-than-ethical approaches which I will leave to the imagination of the very resourceful and industrious.
