That's not true. I found plenty of providers that do WHOIS reassignments, for typical rented servers in the 50-100 Euro price range. OVH does it for any customer, Hetzner does it for any customer, regardless of price. (They are both not suitable for exits though)
It is purely a matter of labor, going through the typical hoster lists and offers, collecting lots of sales@ addresses, and sending them a mass email that you are interested in their server offers but need WHOIS reassignment. I would not mention Tor in the first email. This is how we started, with mails to ~50 hosting providers.
Moritz
On 18.11.18 12:44, niftybunny wrote:
Sorry, but not sorry for being the (negative) realistic guy here:
This will not happen in RL life. If you are working at a Fortune 500 company and you are ordering hosting for millions a year, sure, but not in the “normal” mass hosting market.
Markus
On 17. Nov 2018, at 23:59, Roger Dingledine arma@mit.edu wrote:
In addition to the 'price' question that nifty suggested, you might also ask about whether they can SWIP the address so you are listed in the whois entry. That way many of the abuse complaints will go directly to you and not to the ISP.
See also https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TorExitGuidelines and https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TorRelayGuide#ExitRelayConfigu...
--Roger--
Moritz Bartl https://www.torservers.net/