634 sites. Here is where every one of them came from.

634 sites, run by 582 companies. Some companies run several sites, so one letter can clear more than one — and where a company had registered twice, we write once instead of twice.

Counted from our published list on 2026-07-30, not rounded up. The whole count is below, one step at a time, and you can check any line of it.

How 712 companies become 634 sites

Each step takes something out, and says what. Nothing is added anywhere except the last line but one.

712 Companies on our list. Every company we hold a record for, whether or not there is a way to reach them.
676 The ones with a mailbox. 36 take no email at all — the only way in is a form on their own website. They come out of this count.
672 The ones the mail reaches. 4 more addresses bounce, or the company has told us it will not accept a request this way.
663 The ones we mean to write to. 9 we skip on purpose: most are front-ends that a letter to their parent company already clears, and a few are dead links.
582 Letters we send. The last 81 were one company registered under several names, all reading the same inbox. We write once instead of twice, so this is the number of letters that actually leave the building.
From here the count changes what it measures. Above are envelopes. Below are websites — and one envelope can take down more than one website, which is the only reason the second total is bigger than the first.
592 Websites behind those letters. The addresses the 582 companies publish you on.
+42 Sites the same letter reaches. More sites run by companies already on the list, off the same opt-out desk. Writing to the parent takes these down too, without another letter.
634 Sites we ask to have you taken off.

One removal request, filed

Why our number is not California’s number

Several states now require these companies to register. California’s is the largest, and it is the single biggest source for our list. It is not the same list.

579: have registered with California. Companies that have told the state they collect and sell personal information about people they have no relationship with — that is the law’s own wording, in California Civil Code §1798.99.82. This is our saved copy of the registry, taken on 2026-05-26.
582: we write to. Companies we hold a working opt-out mailbox for, counted from our own list in the ledger above.

Neither list sits inside the other. Ours includes look-up sites that never registered with California at all, and leaves out companies on the registry we have no working address for. That is why the two numbers differ, and why we print both instead of whichever one flatters us.

Read California’s registry →

One letter, and a whole family of sites comes down

Each company below runs a group of look-up sites off a single opt-out desk. Write to the parent and the family clears together.

One filing, the whole family

PeopleConnect, Inc. (dba The Control Group Media Company LLC)

34 sites

Operates as three separate LLCs in the CPPA registry (Intelius LLC, TruthFinder LLC, Instant Checkmate LLC). A single opt-out at the PeopleConnect suppression center clears the entire family. Each LLC enumerates its domains in its own CPPA filing.

From the company’s own filing: peopleconnect.us/privacy-policy/

intelius.com · ussearch.com · pro.ussearch.com · arrestrecordsearch.com · criminalrecords.com · peoplefinder.com · peoplefind.com · telephonenumberlookups.com · reversephonelookup.com · brbpub.com · callercomplaints.com · courtreference.com · easybackgroundchecks.com · freebackgroundchecksusa.com · onlinesearches.com · snoopstation.com · zabasearch.com · addresses.com · publicrecords.com · publicrecords360.com · peoplelookup.com · truthfinder.com · courthousedirectory.us · getfullreport.com · unitedstatesbackgroundchecks.com · courtlocations.com · locaterecord.net · recordlocator.net · backgroundchecks.us · instantcheckmate.com · cellphonedirectory.com · cheaterslie.com · freepeople-search.com · classmates.com

The Lifetime Value Co. LLC (LTV)

13 sites

Operator of the BeenVerified family. Enumerated on ltvco.com/brands and in CPPA "BeenVerified LLC and its subsidiaries and affiliates" filing.

From the company’s own filing: www.ltvco.com/brands/

beenverified.com · peoplelooker.com · numberguru.com · ownerly.com · neighborwho.com · peoplesmart.com · bumper.com · freephonetracer.com · emailfinder.com · moneybot5000.com · reversephone.com · wingmate.com · famfinder.com

InfoPay, Inc. (Boston, MA)

13 sites

Operator of the InfoTracer / RecordsFinder family. Globicom Inc / Intermedia Ventures separately register some of the same domains — likely a duplicate registration; treated conservatively (not double-counted).

From the company’s own filing: cppa.ca.gov/data_broker_registry/

infopay.com · infotracer.com · propertychecker.com · goodcar.com · statecourts.org · courtcasefinder.com · thepublicindex.org · entitycheck.com · sentinex.org · idstrong.com · courtrecords.us · staterecords.org · recordsfinder.com

Spokeo, Inc. (Pasadena, CA)

6 sites

Independent operator (NOT part of PeopleConnect, contra common assumption). ThatsThem and AnyWho are Spokeo properties — commonly listed as standalone brokers but actually rolled up under Spokeo opt-outs.

From the company’s own filing: www.spokeo.com/optout

spokeo.com · freepeopledirectory.com · thatsthem.com · peoplewin.com · anywho.com · family.me

MyLife.com, Inc. (Insightbridge LLC registrant)

1 site

Historical acquisitions (Wink, Reunion.com, Planet Alumni, HighSchoolAlumni, GoodContacts, MyAddressBook) were folded into mylife.com — no separately-operated affiliates today.

From the company’s own filing: www.mylife.com/ccpa

mylife.com

TruePeopleSearch / FastPeopleSearch (operator unverified)

2 sites

Per Krebs investigation (March 2024): sites registered through Alibaba Cloud in Beijing, listed founders appear fabricated. No CPPA registration. Co-operation between the two domains is high-confidence; further affiliates low.

Reported, and not confirmed by us: krebsonsecurity.com/2024/03/the-not-so-true-people-search-network-from-china/

truepeoplesearch.com · fastpeoplesearch.com

69 sites are listed across those 6 companies. 27 of them we also write to directly, so they are already counted inside the 582 letters. The other 42 are reached only through the parent — and those are the 42 added in the ledger above. We do not count a site twice.

What we do not claim

582 is how many companies we write to. It is not how many will delete you. California gives a company 45 days to answer a request like ours (Civil Code §1798.135(c)), and a minority never answer at all. We file; they decide.
They are not 582 look-up sites. 28 of the 634 are sites where a stranger can type your name and get your address — the ones you can go and check tonight. The rest are companies that trade the same records further upstream, where you would never have found them yourself.
We do not claim every company on California’s registry is in our queue. The ledger above shows exactly which ones are not, and why.
We do not print a removal rate. We do not yet have one we could show the working for, and a number we cannot derive has no business on the page that exists to derive numbers. When there is one, it will appear here with its arithmetic, like everything else above.

Want to know about one particular website before you pay for anything? Email support@galaxywarden.com and we will tell you straight: in our queue, covered by a letter to its parent, or not served at all.

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