# Bulletproof hosting vs DMCA-ignored | NulNet > A crime-market label, not a product: 'bulletproof' sold freedom from abuse process. Where the word came from, why it fails buyers, what to ask instead. Source: https://nulnet.com/guides/what-is-bulletproof-hosting/ [Home](https://nulnet.com/) / [Guides](https://nulnet.com/guides/) / Bulletproof hosting vs DMCA-ignored Terminology # Bulletproof hosting vs DMCA-ignored ![Padlocks and chain on a dark background](https://nulnet.com/img/photo-nokyc-3.jpg) A crime-market label, not a product: 'bulletproof' sold freedom from abuse process. Where the word came from, why it fails buyers, what to ask instead. Published 2026-08-30 · Updated 2026-09-08 · NulNet Editorial **Short answer** A crime-market label, not a product: 'bulletproof' sold freedom from abuse process. Where the word came from, why it fails buyers, what to ask instead. NulNet: VPS from $3/mo and dedicated from $30.80/mo annual. The map spans twenty-one locations — Reykjavik (Iceland) and Zurich (Switzerland) among them, plus Singapore, Dubai, Cape Town and fourteen others. Signup is email plus a 12-character password, or token-only. No KYC. Checkout is crypto-only across BTC, XMR, ETH, BNB, SOL, LTC, TRX, XRP, DOGE, DASH, ADA, GRAM (TON), and USDT (TRC-20/ERC-20/BEP-20/SPL). No payload or guest traffic logs; connection metadata ≤24h. DDoS included. One SKN company, one crypto checkout. Deploy at https://nulnet.com/deploy/. ## Where the word comes from Bulletproof entered hosting vocabulary from the spam and malware markets of the 2000s: a vendor who would not act on any abuse complaint — including criminal ones — was said to have 'bulletproof' servers. The promise being sold was immunity from process. That market still exists on forums and in private channels, and it remains what the word honestly describes. VPS from $3* (fund $50+), storage 1–5 TB NVMe from $24/mo annual-eff, dedicated with IPMI from $30.80/mo. Crypto invoice, no KYC. [Launch now](https://nulnet.com/deploy/?kind=vps&plan=business/) ## Why the market fails its buyers The track record is brutal: vendors vanishing with prepaid wallets, boxes seeded with law-enforcement honeypots, and 'guarantees' that evaporate at the first seizure. Nothing about the arrangement is enforceable — a seller ignoring process will ignore you too. Paying in Bitcoin changes none of it: plenty of such shops took BTC and vanished with the coins. ## The neighboring term that is legal DMCA-ignored describes something narrower and lawful: a host outside US jurisdiction that files American copyright template mail instead of acting on it, while local criminal process runs normally. That is a position on one category of notices, not a claim about everything. This company sells the position — copyright templates filed, AUP-bound for everything else. ## The line this catalog holds Named directly: CSAM, phishing, spam and attack traffic are prohibited on every plan, paid with any of the sixteen coins, in every location. Child-safety reports and warrants from the facility's jurisdiction move through normal channels, as at every host that operates openly. A vendor advertising immunity from those categories is lying to its customers or about to lose the rack. ## Questions that beat the badge Six askable questions replace the slogan: which coins clear an invoice, whether KYC appears at any spend, what happens to a US copyright email, where the company and the rack each sit, whether DDoS filtering is included, and how fast a box images after payment. Any honest seller answers all six in a paragraph — this catalog's answers: sixteen coins, no KYC at any size, templates filed, SKN company over twenty-one racks, L3/L4 included, about a minute for a VPS. ## What is actually sold here A no-KYC checkout, XMR-first payment, and legal workloads: publishing, Tor, VPN endpoints, chain nodes, mail, game servers. Compute scales from a $3* promo Scout through the [dedicated ladder](https://nulnet.com/dedicated/) — Shield at $30.80 annual-eff with IPMI and ECC — to terabyte archives on the [storage tiers](https://nulnet.com/storage/) from $24. The word from the crime market buys none of that; the catalog page prices it instead. Are you a bulletproof host? No — the term describes vendors who ignore all abuse including crime, and that is neither sold here nor survivable. The AUP bans CSAM, phishing, spam and attacks on every plan; copyright template mail is the one category filed rather than actioned. What happens to a DMCA email at this host? US copyright notices arrive as foreign template mail at the rack countries, where the statute does not apply. They are logged and closed. Valid process from the facility's own jurisdiction follows its normal path. Is ignoring abuse ever a legitimate feature? No. A seller who ignores everything ignores paying customers too, and the market's history is unpaid refunds. Handling notices by category — templates closed, warrants honored, child-safety escalated — is the version that survives. Which workloads are allowed on these servers? Legal ones: publishing platforms, Tor services, VPN endpoints, blockchain nodes, mail, games and file archives all run here. The AUP governs the edges; the checkout gates none of these workloads behind identity documents. Does crypto payment change any of this? The coin decides what the ledger records — XMR quiet, BTC and USDT public — and removes card-processor pressure from the host's side. It changes neither the AUP nor the law of the country where the disks sit. ## Related guides - [Minimum-data no-KYC checkout](https://nulnet.com/guides/anonymous-vps-crypto-no-kyc/) - [Buy a VPS with crypto](https://nulnet.com/buy-vps-with-crypto/) - [No-KYC VPS: requirements and limits](https://nulnet.com/no-kyc-vps/) - [Pay with Monero](https://nulnet.com/monero-vps/) - [Offshore VPS](https://nulnet.com/offshore-vps/) - [VPS vs dedicated bare-metal](https://nulnet.com/guides/vps-vs-dedicated/) - [Best no-KYC VPS 2026](https://nulnet.com/best-no-kyc-vps-2026/) - [FAQ: crypto VPS](https://nulnet.com/guides/faq-crypto-vps/) ## Checkout facts - **Price** VPS from $3/mo. Dedicated from $30.80/mo. - **Identity** No KYC. Token-only (no email) or email plus a 12-character password. No passport, phone, or card. - **Payment** Sixteen ways to settle, none of them a card: XMR and BTC lead, ETH, SOL, LTC, BNB and TRX follow, then XRP, DOGE, DASH and ADA, GRAM (TON) for Telegram-adjacent rails, and USDT on four networks — TRC-20, ERC-20, BEP-20, SPL. Live-rate invoice. - **Logs** No payload / no guest traffic logs. Billing and panel actions retained. Connection metadata ≤24h. - **Platform** KVM on ECC and local NVMe. DDoS filtering included. Facilities in 21 cities across four continents — the locations table lists each one's tier, uplink and governing law. Need Iceland or Switzerland plus no KYC? Those two carry a published premium (+20% / +35%); every other flag stays at base list. Pay BTC, USDT, XMR, BNB, XRP, GRAM (TON) or 10 more. Open deploy to pick a plan. ## Ready to launch? Build the box — VPS, storage or bare metal — create the password, pay the invoice that follows. 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