Run a business from home, and your home address becomes public record. Delist removes your personal information from the internet.
Filing a DBA, forming an LLC, or pulling a home business license ties your home address to your legal name in the public record. Data brokers copy that pairing across hundreds of people-search sites, where anyone — a disgruntled customer, a scammer, a stranger — can pull it up. The government filing may stay put at the source; the broker copy is what actually spreads, and that's what we find and file to take down.
Start your free scan →The exposure came from the paperwork, not a hack
Most home-based owners never see it coming, because it isn't a breach. It's the ordinary filings you completed to make the business real — and every one of them can carry your home address into public view.
Your home is the registered address
To start out, you file paperwork: a DBA or assumed-name certificate, LLC formation documents, a local business license, a home occupation permit. If you used your home address — most sole proprietors and freelancers do — that address is now part of the public business record, tied to your legal name.
One filing turns into hundreds of listings
The county clerk or Secretary of State holds a single record. Data brokers pull those filings in bulk, match your name to your home address, and republish the pair across people-search sites. The original sits in one place; the copies land everywhere a stranger might look.
It outlives the business
Close up, change your address, move on — the record stays. Brokers keep the old home address on file and keep serving it up. A business you wound down years ago can still be the reason someone finds where you live today.
As registered agent, your name is attached
Form an LLC and name yourself its registered agent at home, and your name and home address go straight into the state's public filing — and into every broker directory that mirrors it. A commercial registered-agent service keeps it off future filings; removal clears the copies already out there.
Background reading:What is a public records directory
A free scan takes a couple of minutes and shows exactly which sites are publishing your home address.
Start your free scan →Keep the business findable. Take the home address off the broker sites.
Find where you appear
We scan data brokers, people-search sites, AI services, and public records for your name, home address, phone, and email. You see exactly which sites are copying your business filings before we start removing them.
File removals
We file opt-out and deletion requests across every site where you appear — automated forms, CCPA and GDPR legal requests, and group resolution for sites that share an operator. Your business web presence is left alone.
Verify and follow up
Each removal is verified after processing. If a broker stalls, we escalate. If they re-list your home address, we re-file. You're not tracking any of it — we are.
Monitor continuously
A license renewal, a new filing, or a fresh data feed can seed a new record at any time. We keep watching for it and removing it — on autopilot, and household members can ride the same plan.
How the approaches compare
| Manual opt-outs | Generic privacy tools | Delist.ai | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Places covered | 10-20 (if you're persistent) | 50-200 | Brokers, AI, search, dark web |
| Prior-business & address history | Often missed | Current only | Full history |
| Business listings | You manage | Varies | Left untouched |
| Re-listing detection | You notice it yourself | Periodic | Continuous |
| Household coverage | Repeat for each person | Varies | Family plans |
| Legal removal requests | You'd draft and send them yourself | Rarely | CCPA/GDPR |
Questions small-business owners ask
See where your home address is right now
A free scan shows exactly which sites publish your home address, tied to your name and your business. Start there — we take it from that point.
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