In recent months, NITC has incorporated companies such as Anchor Shipping, Balm Shipping, and Camellia Shipping at the Singapore-based Tuvalu registry of international companies.

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The firm also joined the Supplier Ethical Data Exchange (Sedex), a web-based platform and registry where companies report on CSR-related initiatives around business and labor practices, health and safety, and the environment.

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Griffith's WikiScanner links publicly available data tracking the IP addresses of Wikipedia's anonymous editors with a registry of companies' IP addresses, allowing users to search for all the Wikipedia changes made from any company.

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Panama boasts the world's biggest shipping registry, which means business for lawyers and boat-servicing companies.

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The companies that control them will be responsible for running their own version of the ICANN registry, she said, making it harder for trademark owners to monitor every address that is handed out.

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