Ask HN: How do companies like Telegram exist anonymously?

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It is known that Pavel Durov is the creator of Telegram. But Telegram itself doesn't seem to have a real address (except some shady proxy address). It all looks like some elaborate shell company construct.

How is it possible that they submit their apps to the stores and also operate Autonomous Systems for their servers? Isn't this very cumbersome?

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They do not exist anonymously. https://www.bloomberg.com/profiles/companies/1399104D:RU-tel...

They are registered with the UK Government and comply with UK regulations related to that. That's more than enough for Apple to accept their apps.

Furthermore, you don't even be a registered company to publish apps in Apple's app store. All you need is Apple dev account.

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