How can I protect my personal identity when running an adult website?

Hi everyone, how are you? The thing is, I need a little help and was hoping you could guide me.

I’m creating a kind of forum for adult entertainment, but since it’s in this particular niche, I don’t want to get myself into any legal trouble. I already have my guidelines established on the website to avoid legal issues, but I am concerned about people in the industry feeling like I’m taking users away from them. Because of that, I wouldn’t want those people to be able to find my personal information.

I have no problem with authorities being able to find me through a court order or some other legitimate legal process. What I don’t want is for random people to be able to access my personal information or track me down.

My question is: I need to buy a domain and hosting. I currently use Namecheap, and for hosting I use Replit or Firebase. Am I safe with that, or do I definitely need to take additional steps to protect my identity? How would I go about doing that?

Can I purchase a domain and hosting anonymously, or am I overthinking this?

If anyone could point me in the right direction, I’d really appreciate it.

Keeping your personal and business info separate is probably the safest bet.

Pretty much all domain name registers, internetbs,namesilo,namecheap, offer included who is privacy, which is all you need. Then its up to you what you put on the site if they can detect what they find on there and trace back to you.

For future references you should think of setting up a company in the future with a forwarding mailing address.

I’d worry less about anonymous hosting and more about links back to your real identity. Enable WHOIS privacy before registration, use a separate email and username, don’t connect personal GitHub or Replit profiles, and check that emails, uploaded files and DNS records don’t expose anything.

Use accurate details with the providers. You’re hiding them from the public, not from the host or authorities. For an adult forum, moderation and takedown procedures are probably the bigger legal risk.

Basically, what I’m building is an adult-oriented community/forum. The idea is not to sell or provide any of these services directly, but to create a place where adults can discuss and share their experiences about adult-oriented businesses and entertainment.

For example, users could discuss nightlife, adult entertainment venues, massage parlors, escorts, OnlyFans creators, etc. They could share opinions, experiences, recommendations, warnings, reviews, and general discussions.

The site is more like a community/review platform rather than an adult content website itself.

That’s why my main concern is privacy. I’m not trying to hide from authorities or avoid legal obligations. I’m just trying to prevent random people or businesses discussed on the platform from being able to easily connect the website to my personal identity.

So based on that, would you still recommend simply using WHOIS privacy + keeping my personal/business identities completely separate, or would you take additional steps?
I also attached a screenshot of the site (it’s in Spanish, since I’m targeting a Spanish-speaking audience), but it should give you a better idea of what I’m building.

Basically, it’s structured as a community forum where adults can create posts, share experiences, ask questions, leave reviews, and discuss different topics related to adult entertainment and nightlife. There are different sections/categories, trending discussions, user profiles, community chat, etc.

The screenshot is just an early version/mockup, but the general idea is to have something closer to an adult-focused Reddit/forum rather than an adult content website itself.
The topics could include adult entertainment businesses, nightlife venues, massage parlors, escort services, OnlyFans creators, and similar adult-oriented businesses or services.
My concern is mainly making sure that I can operate the platform while keeping my personal identity separate from the public-facing identity of the website.+

Separating your personal identity from the project is probably the safest approach.