Where Cryptoservers Ltd. is incorporated — a Nevis Business Corporation outside the United States, the European Union, and the 14-Eyes signals-intelligence sphere for legal-process purposes.
Saint Kitts and Nevis is a sovereign federation in the Eastern Caribbean of two islands and roughly 53,000 people. Its Nevis Business Corporation Ordinance (1984, amended 2018) is the statute under which Cryptoservers Ltd. exists. For an offshore hosting customer, Nevis matters because court orders to compel disclosure must be served, litigated, and won inside Nevis — not faxed from elsewhere.
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Saint Kitts and Nevis (officially the Federation of Saint Christopher and Nevis) is a sovereign two-island country in the Leeward Islands of the Eastern Caribbean. It sits roughly 320 km east of Puerto Rico and 80 km north-west of Antigua. Saint Kitts is the larger of the two islands at 168 km²; Nevis is 93 km². The total population is approximately 53,000, of which about 11,000 live on Nevis. Cryptoservers Ltd. is registered on Nevis, in the town of Charlestown on the western coast.
The Federation became independent from the United Kingdom on 19 September 1983 and is the youngest sovereign nation in the Western Hemisphere. It operates as a Westminster parliamentary democracy under the 1983 Constitution. The Crown is represented locally by a Governor-General; an elected Prime Minister leads the federal government from Basseterre on Saint Kitts. Nevis itself has its own Premier and Island Assembly under §103 of the federal Constitution, which is why Nevis-specific legislation — including the Nevis Business Corporation Ordinance under which we are registered — is passed by Nevis directly rather than from the federal Parliament on Saint Kitts.
Saint Kitts and Nevis is a member of the United Nations, the Commonwealth of Nations, CARICOM (Caribbean Community), the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), and the United Nations Development Programme. It is 非 a member of the European Union, NATO, or the Five/Nine/14-Eyes signals-intelligence alliances. Currency is the Eastern Caribbean Dollar, pegged to the US dollar at a fixed rate of 2.7 since 1976. The official language is English; the legal system is English common law as inherited at independence, modified by federal and Nevisian statute.
Politically the Federation has held continuous, contested, peaceful elections since 1983. It has not experienced a coup, an extra-judicial nationalisation of foreign-owned property, a suspension of the courts, or a constitutional crisis that overrode the rule of law. Its primary external pressures are climatic (Atlantic hurricane season) rather than political. Sovereign credit ratings (Moody's assessed B1 stable as of 2024) reflect a small but functioning economy whose institutions work as designed.
There are roughly twenty offshore corporate jurisdictions a privacy-focused hosting company could pick from. Only a handful combine pseudonymous officer signing, an anti-discovery cost-bond, an absent data-retention statute, and a multi-tier appellate chain measured in years. Nevis has all four.
Cryptoservers Ltd. is registered in Charlestown, Nevis as Nevis Business Corporation number C 59284-2024. Our registered office is PO Box 556, KN-1 4321. The corporate registry filing is verifiable via the Nevis Financial Services Regulatory Commission. Our /about/ page documents incorporation date (1 May 2024); our /canary/ page documents the operating posture that the corporate structure is built to defend.
The decision to incorporate in Nevis rather than in any of the EU jurisdictions where our hardware lives (Iceland, Netherlands, Romania, Switzerland) was deliberate. It follows the operating principle we describe on /about/: corporate sits where it is hardest to coerce; hardware sits where the workloads make sense. A Nevis Business Corporation can own and lease infrastructure in a dozen countries simultaneously — what matters is that legal process aimed at the corporation itself has to be brought, litigated, and won in a Nevis courtroom. Our warrant canary 与 legal pages 记录该公司结构旨在捍卫的运营立场。
Three operational consequences flow from the Nevis registration. First, customers who serve us with foreign court orders are politely told that the order has no statutory effect until it has been domesticated through the High Court of Justice of Saint Kitts and Nevis. Second, civil discovery actions targeting us as an IBC are subject to the §69 cost-bond — a procedural barrier that filters out fishing-expedition lawsuits before they consume engineering time. Third, the appellate chain (High Court → Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal → Privy Council) gives any compelled-production order years of legal runway during which our customers can see, on the warrant canary, that something is happening.
关于 Nevis 商业公司适用法律制度的十二项事实。每项均来源于一手法规或东加勒比最高法院程序规则——引用来源见本页底部。
A foreign subpoena is not a Nevis subpoena. To compel production from a Nevis Business Corporation, a foreign requestor has to traverse the entire judicial chain documented below — and post the cost-bond at step one if their target is a Nevis IBC under NBCO §69.
Step 1 — Service in Nevis. Process must be effected on the registered agent in Nevis. Papers mailed to a hosting address abroad have no statutory effect. The registered agent is a licensed local law firm, not a P.O. box.
Step 2 — High Court of Justice (first instance). Civil and commercial actions against a Nevis IBC are heard by the High Court of Justice of Saint Kitts and Nevis, sitting in Charlestown (Nevis Circuit) for Nevis-based corporations. Procedure is governed by the OECS Civil Procedure Rules 2000, which provide narrower discovery than US-style fishing-expedition pleading. Expect 4–9 months at first instance for a contested compelled-production application.
Step 3 — Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court of Appeal. Appeals from the High Court go to the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court Court of Appeal, an itinerant court covering the nine OECS member states. Hearings sit in St Lucia and Antigua. The Court of Appeal can stay enforcement of a first-instance order pending appeal — a frequently-granted remedy for compelled-production orders. Expect another 6–12 months on appeal.
Step 4 — Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. The Federation has retained the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London as its final court of appeal — Saint Kitts and Nevis has not transferred final appellate jurisdiction to the Caribbean Court of Justice (unlike Belize, Barbados, Dominica or Guyana). The Privy Council adds a further appellate layer measured in years. This is procedurally slow on purpose: it gives respondents — including hosting providers — runway to litigate orders that might otherwise be rubber-stamped.
Two practical limits on this chain. First, the Privy Council is not a national-security exception court — the public-policy exception in private international law (against enforcement of orders that conflict with Nevisian public policy) sits at the top of the appellate ladder, not below it. Second, MLAT requests in genuine criminal matters move faster than civil discovery — Saint Kitts and Nevis has a 1997 MLAT with the United States that runs through (not over) the Nevisian courts. We document the MLAT process and its limits in the FAQ below.
Cryptoservers did not incorporate in Nevis to optimise tax — we incorporated in Nevis for the legal-process posture documented above. The tax facts below are listed for completeness, not for marketing.
| 税务 / 费用 | Nevis IBC 的处理方式 |
|---|---|
| No corporate income tax on Nevis Business Corporation profits earned outside the Federation | (territorial taxation, NBCO §57). |
| No withholding tax on dividends, interest, royalties or service fees paid to non-residents. | — |
| No capital-gains tax for Nevis IBCs. | — |
| No VAT on services rendered to non-Nevisian customers. | — |
| No stamp duty on share transfers between non-residents. | — |
| A flat US$220 government renewal fee applies annually — there is no revenue-linked corporate tax for offshore activities. | — |
关于管辖 Nevis 商业公司的法院的八项事实。
Marketing copy on this topic frequently overstates the protections. We are a hosting company and we operate within a real legal system, not a fantasy one. Five things Nevis incorporation does not give you.
1. It is not a CSAM haven. Nevis statute criminalises child sexual abuse material under the Offences Against the Person Act and the Sexual Offences Act 2012. Cryptoservers terminates CSAM-hosting accounts on first credible report — and we cooperate fully with NCMEC referrals through our Nevisian counsel. There is no jurisdiction on this planet that will host CSAM, and we are not it.
2. It does not displace the criminal law of your jurisdiction. If you live in country X and run an operation that violates country X's criminal law, hosting your machines on a Nevis-incorporated provider does not insulate you. Nevis incorporation insulates 我们 from being made the cat's-paw of country X's prosecutors against you — it does not insulate you from country X's prosecutors arresting you. Pick a hosting provider on the basis of how it constrains 托管商, not how it makes the user invisible.
3. MLAT requests can be processed. Saint Kitts and Nevis has a 1997 Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty with the United States that covers serious criminal matters. The MLAT process runs through the Nevisian courts — meaning the cost-bond, domestication, and appellate steps documented above still apply — but it is a real channel, not a paper one. We do not claim Nevis is uncooperative; we claim it is procedurally slow, transparent (the canary reflects every order we receive), and limited to genuine criminal matters rather than civil fishing.
4. It is not a tax-avoidance scheme for your business. A Nevis Business Corporation's territorial tax treatment applies to the Nevis IBC's income, not to its customers' income. If you are tax-resident somewhere else, your tax obligations are governed by the law of where you are tax-resident. We are a hosting provider, not your tax advisor, and we strongly recommend consulting one if you have questions about your own tax position.
5. Sanctions law has extraterritorial reach. US OFAC and EU sanctions regimes can compel a Nevis IBC to refuse business with sanctioned individuals or entities through secondary-sanctions exposure on our banking partners and equipment vendors. We do not deal with parties on OFAC, EU, or UN consolidated sanctions lists, and we comply with our 可接受使用政策 与 abuse policy. The Nevis registration is a posture, not an exemption.
Every fact on this page traces back to one of the primary sources below. We have not paraphrased through secondary commentary — the statute and the courts say what they say.
The /about/ page documents the founding thesis. The /canary/ page documents the weekly attestation. The /legal/ pages document the rules.
