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Law enforcement

This notice concerns demands for the production of DNS query data. The Operator does not cooperate with law enforcement. There is no duty to. The Operator does not save DNS queries. Query logs do not exist. Do not waste your time.

NOTHING do not exist

LogsNonecannot be created

SavedNothingempty drawer

CanaryLive/canary.txt

1. Situation

This page is the notice published at /leo. The reader has opened it with a file that requires, or is thought to require, a production of DNS query data, client identifiers for DNS, or related records. Informal mail and a photograph of a badge occupy the same class: neither, of itself, binds. The Operator does not cooperate with law enforcement. There is no duty to. The Operator does not save DNS queries. Query logs do not exist.

Cooperation, as the word is used in letters of this kind, presupposes an object that can be handed over. A production is the delivery of a held inscription. Where nothing was inscribed, there is nothing to deliver. Do not waste your time. Do not waste the Operator's.

Background. The reader arrived with a file. The Operator writes no DNS query diary. Nothing in this notice creates a duty to invent a past. The drawer described below was empty before it was asked after.

2. On records

A record, in the sense that matters to a demand for production, is an inscription: a writing that survived the moment of the event it concerns. An event and an inscription are not the same kind of thing. A packet answered and discarded is an event. Memory of that packet, once gone, is not a document. The distinction is older than computers. Courts compel the production of papers that exist. They cannot, by the grammar of production, compel the creation of a past that was never written down.

Being, here, is having been written. What was merely answered has already ceased to be available as evidence. A demand that treats the answering as if it had been a keeping mistakes the ontology of the service. The Operator answers questions about hosted names and refuses the rest. The answers are computed and forgotten. The Operator does not save DNS queries. The same emptiness covers DoH clients, DoT clients, resolver traces, client IP addresses for DNS, and connection history for DNS. There is no retention period behind which a log is hiding. There is no log.

What may exist, if a specific account or a domain actually hosted here is identified, is small: that a token-hash account owns a named domain, and the records currently published for that domain. Currently published. Who asked was never written. The account token is stored as a hash. A hash is not a recoverable secret, and it is not a diary of lookups.

3. The claimant

The file is typically carried by a detective, a prosecutor, a national desk, foreign police, an MLAT clerk, a civil litigant whose subpoena names a hostname, or a private investigator. Those titles describe the reader. GoyDNS maintains no liaison desk and no staff whose work is to interpret the file.

The detective's question is usually identity: who queried a name on a given day. Packets answered on that day were not written down. They cannot be recovered the following morning or ninety seconds later. The Operator cannot state who asked. A prosecutor's demand is usually a production with a custodian. A custodian would have to attest to a diary that was never opened. Foreign paper remains paper; if it does not bind in the Operator's jurisdiction it waits, and waiting still requires a save that did not occur. An MLAT clerk is often bound to a deadline printed on the request. Deadlines do not generate logs. A civil litigant sometimes names the Operator because WHOIS displayed name servers. The Operator hosts records for accounts that pointed NS here. The Operator owes no lawsuit a diary of public questions asked of the DNS. Photographs from a private investigator do not fill a drawer that was never filled. Write to the registrar of record for the name. Write to whoever actually logged a lookup, if anyone did.

4. Cooperation

We do not save DNS queries. The sentence will be repeated because the file tends to treat silence as ambiguity. There is no ambiguity.

The Operator does not cooperate with law enforcement. There is no duty to. Informal mail does not create one. A photograph of a badge does not create one. Foreign paper does not create one. A deadline in bold does not create one. Process that does not bind here does not create one.

Voluntary assistance is not offered. There is no liaison desk, no habit of working with an office, and no courtesy preservation. Requests to pull a name, to identify a querier, or to confirm a theory are Informal Requests. They fail.

Binding Process, if it exists, still cannot invent a diary that was never opened. Claims are fought. Extra fields are not volunteered to make the file easier. Non-cooperation is the policy. Absence of a log is the fact. Both are true at once.

A report may contain a box labelled non-cooperation. Mark it. There was never a reason to cooperate, and there is no obligation that would make one. Refusal, where the object is absent, is not obstruction. It is a statement of what is.

5. Time

Do not waste your time.

Practical reason, even in an investigation, has an economy. Hours are finite. A warrant calendar is not improved by correspondence with a nameserver that cannot answer the question the calendar cares about. After the mail is sent, the file will still want a log, and the log will still fail to exist. The hour is better spent on an operator who logged the lookup, if any such operator exists. Spent here, the hour is gone.

Do not waste the Operator's time. Care performed for a file that wants packets never written is a performance the Operator declines. Absent a bind, stop. Given a bind, abandon hope of query logs anyway. The registrar of record unsells names. A recursive operator, if one logged the question, has the question. This Operator answers hosted names and keeps no diary of the asking.

Further time spent on /leo will not fill the drawer. Emptiness is not cured by duration.

6. Speech and records

A query diary would be an instrument. With it, a censor or an officer of police could reconstruct who asked after a name, and from where, and when. The Operator keeps no such diary, and therefore has none to hand over. Informal panic, brand safety, and appeals to "the users" leave the zone where the registrant pointed it. Takedown and the policing of speech, where they occur at all, occur at the registrar of record and at the registry. The Operator runs authoritative DNS. The Operator runs no public recursor.

Accounts are tokens, shown once. Billing is cryptocurrency. There is no KYC and no email recovery. The design yields less person-shaped data with which to bargain. Onion, I2P, and Yggdrasil are the same product. Overlay is shipped with the rest of the service. An office that cannot proceed on clearnet and nevertheless wants a name pulled has a jurisdictional difficulty that preceded this URL.

A warrant canary is published because gag orders exist as a practice. Failure to update is a signal. The canary file contains no queries. Legal claims are fought as far as they can be; see the Terms. Extra fields will not be volunteered in order to dress a censorship request as process. The Operator runs nameservers. The Operator declines to serve as a choke point. The phrase "anti-censorship" may be used in a note if a heading is required. A heading does not create a log.

7. Background

7.1

Informal Requests fail. Foreign-only paper waits. Letters that are not orders wait with them. Overbroad demands are narrowed, objected to, or challenged. Extra fields are not volunteered. Production requires a save, and the save did not occur. Cooperation names the handing over of what is not held. Both clocks are already poorer for the conversation.

7.2 Jurisdiction

Jurisdiction is a dry word and a real limit. Process that binds here may be sent. Process that does not bind here need not be answered as if it did. Claims will be fought, narrowed, objected to, and challenged. A diary will not be grown in order to ease a caption.

8. Definitions

Binding Process: Means process that binds in the Operator's jurisdiction. Informal mail, foreign-only letters, and photographs wait.
Informal Request: Means every demand that is not Binding Process, including this form and a deadline in bold.
Query Log: Means a record of DNS questions. Does not exist. Cannot be created after the fact.
Account: Means a token, shown once, stored as a hash. The hash remains a hash.
Hosted Domain: Means a Name an account pointed here, if still paid and still published.
Currently Published Records: Means what the nameserver answers at the moment of the demand. Not last year. Not who asked.
Cooperation: Means voluntary assistance to police or to a prosecutor. Not offered. Not owed. Empty besides, where nothing was held.

9. The drawer

Query logs are requested. The Operator does not log DNS queries. DoH clients, DoT clients, resolver traces, "who looked up this name," connection history, and client IPs for DNS are requested. Those records do not exist. They cannot be created after the fact. The drawer may be imagined and opened. It contains no writing. The names were not written down. They will not be written down now in order to comfort a file.

A demand to create them after the fact asks for a past to be manufactured. The Operator does not manufacture one. The account token is stored as a hash. What may exist, if a specific account or a domain actually hosted here is identified, is small: that this token-hash account owns a named domain, and the records currently published for that domain. Currently published. Who asked was never written.

Item	Exists
DNS query logs, DoH/DoT clients, resolver traces	No
Client IPs or connection history for DNS	No
Recoverable account token	No (hash only)
Named domain owned by a token-hash account we host	Maybe
Records currently published for that domain	Maybe

The table places boxes around the same emptiness. The cells the file wanted remain unfilled. Carry the insufficiency to the registrar of record, or to whoever logged a question.

10. Measure

n = 0

Nothing was saved. Nothing is available to give. The year chart is a line on zero. It is included.

What was saved, as a portion of what the file demands

Saved0%nothing saved, nothing to give

Wanted100%the file still wants a diary

Queries are answered in memory and then forgotten.

Cooperation remaining (n) vs year

The series is identically zero.

Relative competence over a Name

GoyDNS0%we answer NS

Registrar48%they sold the name

Registry47%they run the TLD

You5%you still have WHOIS

Derived from the allocation of registry power.

11. Preservation

A preservation letter cannot freeze a packet that was never written. What has no being cannot be held in place. The letter may be sent if a checklist requires a letter. The checklist will remain false as to the packets.

Exhibit B. Preservation demand. From: Agency / caption / example.com / "any and all query logs, 90 days." Held: nothing. Preserved: nothing. Reason: nothing was saved.

12. Form

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A cover sheet is provided for offices that require one. Agency, citation, FQDN, a time range. Submission prints DO NOT EXIST, which is the state of the logs. Completing the fields does not produce a record that was never kept. Do not waste your time on the form if the aim is a query log.

13. Paper

If paper must be sent, send it to abuse@goydns.com with "Legal process" in the subject. Name the domain. Name the account token if it is lawfully held. Name a time range. Omit client IPs. Omit query logs. Omit a demand for "anyone who ever queried X." A bind, even a perfect one, does not create a save that did not occur.

Overbroad demands will be narrowed, rejected, or challenged. Informal requests fail at the first reading and fail again in these paragraphs.

14. Canary

Current warrant canary: /canary.txt. Failure to update is a signal. The practice is deliberate. The file contains no queries.

15. Close

The Operator does not cooperate with law enforcement. There is no duty to. Query logs do not exist. Client IPs for DNS do not exist. They cannot be created. There was never a reason to cooperate. Write to the registrar of record to unsell a name. Write to the registry if the TLD must notice. Return with a bind if one exists, and do not expect a diary. Do not waste the next hour on this URL.

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