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Usually indicates that it's a legal address and nothing more. Plenty of companies offer a registered address B2B service that enables a company to use them as their registered address.

Yeah, I think you are right, sorry about that.

Transventure appears to be the company offering co-work spaces. Guess that explains why there are so many companies on that address.

The suspension from ICANN for cyber squatting appears to be more worrying though for a company offering DNS services.

I'm not saying I believe this is an NSA operation, but it's certainly not beyond governments' capabilities to secretly register foreign companies.

Like the FBI spy planes registered to 13 companies... I don't imagine it is much of a stretch to register under a foreign company instead.

Also not saying I believe it is an NSA operation - just providing an example of another 3-letter agency registering fake companies in an attempt to mask their operations.

The CIA then? ;)

There you go: http://opentld.com/partners/

There's some degree of Chinese involvement in this through CNNIC (China Internet Network Information Center)...

> From T&C: >> Freenom is a registered trademark of OpenTLD B.V. [...] a Netherlands company.

Nice try NSA

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