Since I never knew that "www.paypal-community.com" existed, I checked
the basics:
$ nslookup www.paypal-community.com
Server: 66.174.92.14
Address: 66.174.92.14#53
Non-authoritative answer:
www.paypal-community.com canonical name = ppl.lithium.com.
Name: ppl.lithium.com
Address: 208.74.205.40
$ whois paypal-community.com
Registrant Name: Host Master
Registrant Organization: PayPal Inc.
Registrant Street: 2211 North First Street
Registrant City: San Jose
Registrant State/Province: CA
Registrant Postal Code: 95131
Registrant Country: US
Registrant Phone: +1.4083767400
Registrant Phone Ext:
Registrant Fax:
Registrant Fax Ext:
Registrant Email: hostmaster@ebay.com
$ whois 208.74.205.40
NetRange: 208.74.204.0 - 208.74.207.255
CIDR: 208.74.204.0/22
OriginAS:
NetName: LITHIUM-NET1
NetHandle: NET-208-74-204-0-1
Parent: NET-208-0-0-0-0
NetType: Direct Assignment
RegDate: 2007-02-09
Updated: 2012-02-24
Ref: http://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-208-74-204-0-1
OrgName: Lithium Technologies, Inc.
OrgId: LITHI
Address: 225 Bush Street
Address: 15th floor
City: San Francisco
StateProv: CA
PostalCode: 94104
Country: US
RegDate: 2007-01-04
Updated: 2014-02-25
Ref: http://whois.arin.net/rest/org/LITHI
...
And of course:
http://www.networking4all.com/en/support/tools/site+check/re...Many pages on paypal-community.com have a "Powered By Lithium" banner, so they seem to be the folks who wrote the "community forum" software.
And they're mentioned in the paypal privacy policy: