Quick answer
Which uses are allowed on a Copperstrait server?
Copperstrait servers may run websites, apps, game servers, your own VPN, Proxmox VE machines and Tor relays, exits included. Spam, phishing, malware, attacks, scanning, booters, fraud, child sexual abuse material, mining and unlicensed media distribution are banned. Outgoing port 25 stays shut. Foreign copyright notices get no action: Panamanian law decides. Each datacenter remains bound by its local law. A breach ends in suspension.
1. Whom does this policy cover?
It covers all Copperstrait accounts and servers, the virtual machines they host and anyone using them. The terms of service incorporate it, and it applies to every plan on the Copperstrait pricing page, in every city. Whatever runs on your server is your responsibility, also when you hand a virtual machine or a login to someone else.
2. Which law applies?
Copperstrait is operated by DomaineGoat LLC, incorporated in Panama and answerable to Panamanian law only. The datacenter in each city is bound by the law of the place it stands in. Copperstrait does not act on a demand that rests only on another country's law. The datacenter in Hong Kong, Singapore or Tokyo answers to the law of its own place, and its network equipment is not ours to control. This policy is not legal advice about what that local law allows.
3. Which uses are welcome?
Anything that section 6 does not ban. Uses we name as welcome:
- websites, APIs, web applications and services you host yourself;
- your own VPN, for you or your team (see hosting your own VPN server in Hong Kong);
- game servers (see where to host a game server for players in Asia);
- Tor relays of every type (section 4);
- virtual machines under Proxmox VE;
- trading tools and bots that you run for yourself;
- a mail server that hands outgoing mail to a relay provider on 465 or 587 (section 7);
- file storage, backup targets, and build or test boxes.
4. Are Tor relays allowed?
Yes. Tor relays are allowed, exit relays included. Port 25 is shut on every server, so an exit relay cannot carry mail on that port; Tor's default exit policy rejects it as well.
Other Asian hosts set stricter rules. The page on which hosting providers in Asia allow Tor relays compares them and sums up the Tor Project's advice for exits.
5. What happens to DMCA and other foreign copyright notices?
We do not process DMCA notices or other foreign copyright notices: the law of Panama and the orders of its courts are the only ones that bind us. Whether it cites the DMCA or another foreign copyright statute, a notice triggers no takedown and no suspension.
That rule does not open the door to piracy. Section 6 bans the public distribution of films, series, music, games or software you hold no rights to, on every server, whatever happens to notices.
6. Which uses are banned?
Prohibited: spam or bulk email, phishing, malware or botnet control, DDoS or other attacks, scanning or brute-forcing systems you do not own, booter or stresser services, carding or fraud, child sexual abuse material, cryptocurrency mining, IPTV or the public distribution of films, series, music, games or software you hold no rights to, and any service to sanctioned people or companies.
The table explains each item. The bans reach the machine itself, its guests and any service resold from it.
| Banned use | What it means |
|---|---|
| Spam or bulk email | Unsolicited or mass mail to people who did not ask for it, on any port and through any provider. |
| Phishing | Fake login pages, messages or apps that imitate a real brand to harvest passwords, card numbers or wallet seed phrases. |
| Malware or botnet control | Storing or spreading malicious software, and running servers that command infected machines. |
| DDoS or other attacks | Sending floods, exploits or other hostile traffic at any target, from the server or a guest on it. |
| Scanning or brute-forcing | Probing other people's networks for open ports or flaws, or guessing passwords on their logins. |
| Booter or stresser services | Running or selling floods on demand, under any name, "stress testing" included. |
| Carding or fraud | Using or testing stolen card data, fake shops, scam pages or any scheme to take money or goods by deceit. |
| Child sexual abuse material | Holding, sending or pointing to it, in whatever format. There are no exceptions. |
| Cryptocurrency mining | Running a miner for any coin, directly or inside a guest machine. |
| Unlicensed TV and media distribution | Re-streaming TV channels, or offering films, series, music, games or software to the public without the rights to them. |
| Serving sanctioned parties | Accounts or services for listed people or firms, or for anyone in a country or region named in section 8. |
Where each rule stops:
- Blockchain nodes: validating a chain is not mining, so a full node may run.
- Scanning: probing your own machines is fine; anyone else's machines are off limits.
- Mail: your own mail server may send personal or business mail through a relay provider on 465 or 587. Mass mail stays banned on every port.
7. Why is port 25 shut?
Outgoing port 25 is shut on every server, permanently, to keep spam out; ports 465 and 587 to mail providers work. A mail server on Copperstrait therefore sends its outgoing mail through a provider on port 465 or 587. Incoming mail is not affected by this rule.
8. Who may not use Copperstrait?
We do not serve residents or companies of Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, Russia, Belarus, China, Yemen or Western Sahara, nor the occupied regions of Ukraine. Every incoming payment is screened against public sanctions lists of blockchain addresses; payments from a listed address are not credited. Accounts are open to adults of 18 and over.
9. How are abuse reports handled?
Foreign copyright notices, the DMCA among them, are not processed; Panamanian law and Panamanian court orders decide. Spam, phishing, malware, botnet control, attacks and child sexual abuse material are prohibited and end in suspension.
Send reports about any Copperstrait IP address to [email protected]. A person reads each one. Reports that include these points are handled fastest:
- the Copperstrait IP address involved;
- the date and time, in UTC or with the time zone;
- what you observed (spam, phishing, malware, an attack, a scan);
- proof: logs, complete mail headers or the offending link.
Copyright complaints based on the DMCA or another foreign law are not acted on (section 5).
10. What does a suspension mean?
A breach of section 6 ends in suspension. A suspended server shows that status in the dashboard, and support gives the reason by email. Days left on a server stopped for a breach are not credited; the refund policy lists every case that is.
A term that runs out is a different matter. The terms of service cover that case: the disks wait 7 days, then are erased.
11. How can a suspension be contested?
Email [email protected]. A person answers support emails within 12 hours, seven days a week, including help with SSH keys, RAID, reinstalls and firewall rules.
- Give the server's order reference (ORD-…) and IP address.
- Your account number stays out of the email. Nobody from our team will ever ask for your account number, your root password or your private SSH key, by email or in a chat.
- Explain the cause and the fix: the malware removed, the open relay closed, the virtual machine shut down.
12. When are records handed over?
When a Panamanian court orders it, and in no other case. The privacy policy names each record we hold. We keep no logs: no record of connections or traffic and no IP address of a visitor or customer, on the website, in the dashboard or on any server.
13. How can this policy change?
This version is dated 2 November 2026. We may update it. The version in force carries the date printed at the top; from that day, a revision binds all servers.