A court took Telephone Directories's domain away
This domain no longer belongs to the people who ran it. In Atlas Data Privacy Corporation, et al. v. TelephoneDirectories.US, et al. the Superior Court of New Jersey, Law Division, Mercer County, entered judgment on November 14, 2025 under New Jersey's Daniel's Law and transferred it to Atlas Data Privacy Corporation (docket MER-L-000335-24). What answers now is that notice, so there is no search here and nothing to file.
That is not the same as the records being deleted. The judgment bars the operators from publishing the claimants' protected information, through this domain or through any database they still hold. It does not order any of it destroyed, and New Jersey's Daniel's Law is an unpublication statute rather than a deletion one. The protection also runs to the people who brought the claims, not to everyone.
Source: the transfer notice served at telephonedirectories.us (Internet Archive copy), which quotes the judgment. We read it on the live domain on September 25, 2026.
Broker profile
Telephone Directories
- Taken by court order
A New Jersey court took this domain off the people who ran it, though not quickly. Judgment was entered on November 14, 2025, the directory was still running the following June, and what answers now is the court's transfer notice. The name still promises a free phone directory search by name and number, so anyone arriving from an old link or an out-of-date removal guide finds the court's notice instead.
Telephone Directories overview
At a glance
- Data published
- Substantial
- Re-listing frequency
- Not established
- Complaint record
- Not established
- Opt-out friction
- Severe
- Operator opacity
- Hidden
- Prior data incidents
- None documented
Each broker is scored 1 to 4 across the six dimensions above; higher means more exposure, and the overall gauge is their average.
Re-listing frequency and Complaint record are not established for this broker, so they are left out of the gauge rather than averaged in as a number nobody researched. The figure above is the average of the other four dimensions.
What each dimension means
- Data published: how much and how sensitive the personal data they put out.
- Re-listing frequency: how quickly you reappear after opting out.
- Complaint record: the volume and pattern of complaints across BBB, Trustpilot, and Sitejabber. No listing, or a listing with no reviews, counts against the broker.
- Opt-out friction: how hard the removal process is to complete.
- Operator opacity: how hidden the operating company and its principals are.
- Prior data incidents: history of breaches or leaks of the data they hold.
- What it presents as
a free phone directory search by name and number
- What it actually is
A domain a court transferred to Atlas Data Privacy Corporation
- Taken by court order
November 14, 2025 · docket MER-L-000335-24
- Records held here
Nothing is published here now. What the operators still hold is not something the judgment disturbed
- Removal on this domain
None
- Where removal actually goes
Nowhere on this domain. A court took it, so there is no operator here to file with
- CA data broker registry
Not registered
Background
Background
A New Jersey court took this domain off the people who ran it, though not quickly. Judgment was entered on November 14, 2025, the directory was still running the following June, and what answers now is the court's transfer notice.
This is a separate case from the one that took Radaris, in a different county. Atlas Data Privacy Corporation and eight individual plaintiffs sued in February 2024 under Daniel's Law, on claims assigned by about 19,052 police officers, prosecutors and other covered people, and judgment was entered by default against TelephoneDirectories.US. Daniel's Law is about publishing home addresses and unpublished phone numbers, and the court found the defendant had violated it. The judgment, as the notice quotes it, names no company behind the domain.
The judgment did not take the site down straight away. Archived copies show the phone directory still up in June 2026, more than six months after judgment, and the transfer notice was in place by September.
What the judgment does is narrower than it sounds. It moved the domain and permanently barred the defendant, and anyone acting with it, from disclosing the claimants' protected information, through any site or database it still holds. It did not order that data deleted, and the protection runs to the claimants rather than to the public.
FAQ
Q & A
How do I remove my information from Telephone Directories?
There is nothing to file here. A court transferred this domain to Atlas Data Privacy Corporation on November 14, 2025, in a judgment against TelephoneDirectories.US, so no removal form on it reaches anyone. That is not the same as your record being deleted: the judgment stopped the publishing rather than ordering the data destroyed, and it covers the people who brought the claims.
Is Telephone Directories a data broker?
It published people's personal information, and a court has now ruled on that. Judgment was entered against TelephoneDirectories.US on November 14, 2025, and this domain went to Atlas Data Privacy Corporation with it. The finding was about disclosing covered people's home addresses and unpublished phone numbers under New Jersey's Daniel's Law, which is a narrower question than California's data-broker register asks. Whether they still hold records, or run other sites, the judgment does not say.
Why does Telephone Directories exist?
It no longer runs as a people search. It is documented here because old links and out-of-date removal guides still lead to the domain, and anyone who follows one should know a court took it.
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September 25, 2026 · The domain was opened on that date and served the court's transfer notice, which is where the case name, docket and judgment date here come from.