Hosting service from Peter Sunde, called Njalla, says that is serves as a “privacy shield” that “protects you from ferocious domain predators”

The domain name for a website containing voter information for the independence referendum that Catalan authorities want to hold on October 1 has been registered through a Caribbean-based company that boasts about “acting as a privacy shield.”

On Thursday, Catalan premier Carles Puigdemont said that he had “contingency plans” to make up for the fact that a major Civil Guard raid against key government offices has effectively curtailed the logistics of a vote that violates Spanish constitutional laws, and which the Constitutional Court has suspended.

As part of these plans, Puigdemont, of the separatist coalition Junts pel Si (Together for Yes), tweeted a link for a website containing the electoral roll and a list of voting stations for the referendum. The domain name website, onvotar.garantiespelreferendum.com (or, wheretovote.guaranteesforthereferendum.com), was registered through a company called Njalla, which is physically located on the island of Nevis, in the Caribbean.

Njalla belongs to Peter Sunde, a privacy activist and co-founder of The Pirate Bay, an online index of digital content facilitating peer-to-peer file sharing. Sunde offered his services on Monday via a tweet: “If you’re running a Catalan site being shut down by Spanish authorities, contact me for anonymous hosting and domains. We’ve got you covered,” the message read.

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On Wednesday, after the Civil Guard raided the DotCat Registry Offices as part of a court-ordered investigation into illegal referendum activities, Sunde tweeted: “This is a international issue, not just a local one. This is not OK.”

https://twitter.com/brokep/status/910510323693694977

Njalla is described as “a privacy-aware domain registration service that protects you from ferocious domain predators.”

The word “njalla” describes a tree hut used in Lapland and “refers to the classic Sámi way of keeping the non-wanted beasts out of the stuff you care about.”