Know Your Customer—verification rules that force registrars to collect your identity, address, phone, and sometimes financial data before letting you register a domain. Banks started it. Regulators copied it. Now most registrars do it by default, treating domain buyers like money launderers.
KYC exists to feed compliance departments and satisfy governments that they're "fighting crime." In practice, it creates a permanent record linking your name to every domain you buy, kills anonymous registration, and hands your data to whoever breaches the registrar's database next.
We don't do KYC. You sign up with an email (or Tor if you prefer), pay in crypto, and register. No passport scans. No address verification. No phone verification. No questions about what you're doing with the domain. It's how domain registration should work.