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'''Registered Agents Inc. (RAI)''' is an American [[registered agent]] firm founded in 2008. The company provides business formation services to set up [[Limited liability company|limited liability companies]] and [[Corporation|corporations]] and acts as a point of contact for legal notices. The company is headquartered in Wyoming where it has provided approximately 120,000 companies with business registration services in that state alone, while it also maintains offices in all other states and Washington, DC.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":13" />

RAI is known for protecting the privacy of its clients by obscuring ownership of the [[Limited Liability Company|LLCs]] it forms by listing its address and, in some reported instances, the use of [[Pseudonym|fictitious personas]] as the agent of record on clients' business formation documents.<ref name=":9" /><ref name=":13" /><ref name=":1" />

In 2024, the company received media coverage after acquiring [[Epik]], a domain registrar and web hosting company known for providing domain registration services to the [[alt-right]].<ref name=":9">{{Cite magazine |last=Turton |first=William |date=February 8, 2024 |title=The Far Right's Favorite Web Host Has a Shadowy New Owner |url=https://www.wired.com/story/epik-domain-registrar-new-owner/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240213021939/https://www.wired.com/story/epik-domain-registrar-new-owner/ |archive-date=February 13, 2024 |access-date=February 13, 2024 |magazine=[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]] |language=en-US |issn=1059-1028}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite news |last=Collins |first=Benedict |date=February 9, 2024 |title=The world's most controversial domain registrar has a new owner — and apparently it is "forging a new path" |url=https://www.techradar.com/pro/the-worlds-most-controversial-domain-registrar-has-a-new-owner-and-apparently-it-is-forging-a-new-path |access-date=April 20, 2024 |work=[[TechRadar]] |archive-date=March 18, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240318224700/https://www.techradar.com/pro/the-worlds-most-controversial-domain-registrar-has-a-new-owner-and-apparently-it-is-forging-a-new-path |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=":13" />