# Who Owns why.com? — Investigation Report ## Bottom line **why.com is operated by Ockams Inc., a Delaware-incorporated stock corporation registered to do business in California.** The domain's public WHOIS registrant is hidden behind a Network Solutions privacy service (Perfect Privacy LLC), so the legal registrant of record is not publicly visible. The people behind Ockams Inc. are **David Horlick** (registered agent, officer) and **Rasheed Richmond** (CEO, officer). --- ## 1. Ockams Inc. — corporate facts (verified) **Incorporation / registration (2 sources agree):** - **CA company number 5897536** — confirmed by [cacompanyregistry.com](https://www.cacompanyregistry.com/companies/ockams-inc/) and [bizprofile.net](https://www.bizprofile.net/ca/los-angeles/ockams-inc). - **Initial filing date September 9, 2023** — confirmed by both cacompanyregistry.com and bizprofile.net. cacompanyregistry also lists a Statement of Information filed 2023-12-07. - **Type: Stock Corporation** — confirmed by both sources. **⚠️ Discrepancy — "California stock corporation" vs. Delaware:** Both cacompanyregistry.com and bizprofile.net list the jurisdiction/state of formation as **DELAWARE** (cacompanyregistry labels it "Stock Corporation – Out of State – Stock"). So Ockams Inc. was **organized in Delaware and qualified/registered to do business in California** under CA number 5897536. It is not a California-domestic corporation. The user's framing "California stock corporation" is only half right — it's a foreign (Delaware) stock corporation registered in CA. **Registered agent (2 sources agree):** - **David Horlick, 6129 Alcott Street, Los Angeles, CA 90035** — confirmed by both cacompanyregistry.com and bizprofile.net. - bizprofile.net adds a **mailing address: PO Box 25714, Los Angeles, CA 90025**, and lists the same Alcott Street address as the principal address. **Officers (bizprofile.net + F6S):** - **David Horlick** — Director, Secretary, CEO, CFO, Other, and registered agent ([bizprofile.net](https://www.bizprofile.net/ca/los-angeles/ockams-inc)). - **Rasheed Richmond** — Director, Other ([bizprofile.net](https://www.bizprofile.net/ca/los-angeles/ockams-inc)); described on [F6S](https://www.f6s.com/company/ockams) as **CEO @ Ockams**, CEO @ Prowlis, Economics @ UC Irvine, serial entrepreneur based in Berkeley. **Berkeley address (2120 University Ave):** - Confirmed by the **VisualVisitor** listing (via search snippet): "Headquarters: 2120 University Ave, Berkeley, California, United States." Note: VisualVisitor.com itself **blocked direct access**, so this is from the search-result snippet, not an opened page. F6S corroborates the Berkeley connection (Rasheed Richmond based in Berkeley; a CTO job posting located in Berkeley), but F6S lists the company location as **San Francisco** — a minor discrepancy. **Employees (~2):** - VisualVisitor lists **2 employees** (via search snippet; site blocked direct access). I could not find a second independent source confirming the headcount — treat "~2 employees" as **single-source (VisualVisitor)** and unverified elsewhere. **NAICS 541511 (custom computer programming):** - I could **not verify** this from any opened source. Searches for "Ockams" + "541511" / "custom computer programming" returned nothing, and the sources that typically carry NAICS codes (OpenCorporates, Bizapedia) were blocked. **This fact is unverified** in this investigation. --- ## 2. why.com domain — WHOIS (verified, 3 sources agree) Checked via [who.is/whois/why.com](https://who.is/whois/why.com), [whoxy.com/why.com](https://www.whoxy.com/why.com), and [whois.com/whois/why.com](https://www.whois.com/whois/why.com): - **Registrant: PERFECT PRIVACY, LLC** — Network Solutions' privacy/proxy service (5335 Gateway Parkway, care of Network Solutions, PO Box 459, Jacksonville, FL 32256). **The true beneficial owner is hidden** behind this privacy shield. - **Registrar:** Network Solutions, LLC - **Created:** May 23, 1994 (a very old, premium domain) - **Updated:** April 2, 2026 (who.is); whoxy shows a Verisign update 2024-04-12 and registrar update 2026-04-02 — consistent with recent activity/transfer - **Expires:** May 24, 2032 - **Nameservers:** beth.ns.cloudflare.com / seth.ns.cloudflare.com (Cloudflare) - **IP:** 75.2.60.5 (AWS Global Accelerator) - **Status:** clientTransferProhibited **Key point:** The public WHOIS does **not** name Ockams Inc. or any individual as the registrant — it's privacy-protected. The connection to Ockams comes from the **site itself**, not the WHOIS. --- ## 3. Why.com content — Ockams connection (verified) - **Live site [why.com](https://why.com)** is "WHY" — a private AI assistant product, and the footer reads **"© 2026 Ockams Inc. All rights reserved."** - The [why.com/about](https://why.com/about) page describes "Why Private AI" ("WHY remembers your preferences… without uploading your life to someone else's servers"). - **Wayback Machine snapshot of 2026-08-09** ([web.archive.org](https://web.archive.org/web/20260809190931id_/http://why.com/)) shows the same WHY AI product with "© 2026 Ockams Inc." — confirming Ockams operated why.com at least by August 2026. - **Domain history:** why.com has been continuously archived since **1996** (Wayback CDX data), so it's a decades-old domain that Ockams acquired/repurposed. I could not retrieve a clean pre-Ockams snapshot of the site content (the 2023 snapshot timed out), so **when exactly Ockams took over why.com is not established** from opened sources. --- ## 4. People behind Ockams / why.com - **Rasheed Richmond** — CEO @ Ockams, CEO @ Prowlis, Economics @ UC Irvine, serial entrepreneur, Berkeley-based ([F6S](https://www.f6s.com/company/ockams); officer per [bizprofile.net](https://www.bizprofile.net/ca/los-angeles/ockams-inc)). - **David Horlick** — serial entrepreneur, Los Angeles; registered agent and officer (Director/Secretary/CEO/CFO) per [bizprofile.net](https://www.bizprofile.net/ca/los-angeles/ockams-inc) and [cacompanyregistry.com](https://www.cacompanyregistry.com/companies/ockams-inc/); investor per [F6S](https://www.f6s.com/company/ockams). - **Investors/backers** per [F6S](https://www.f6s.com/company/ockams): Eterna Capital, Algorand Europe Accelerator, plus David Horlick and Rasheed Richmond. - **⚠️ Founding-date discrepancy:** F6S lists Ockams as **founded 2021**, while the CA registration is dated **September 9, 2023**. The 2021 date likely reflects the company's pre-incorporation activity; the legal incorporation is 2023. --- ## 5. Sources that were blocked (could not verify) - **OpenCorporates** ([opencorporates.com/companies/us_ca/5897536](https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_ca/5897536)) — blocked by hCaptcha; no snapshot found in Wayback. - **Bizapedia** ([bizapedia.com/ca/ockams-inc.html](https://www.bizapedia.com/ca/ockams-inc.html)) — blocked; no Wayback snapshot found. - **VisualVisitor** ([visualvisitor.com/companies/835568/Ockams](https://www.visualvisitor.com/companies/835568/Ockams)) — blocked; data taken from search snippet only. - **California Secretary of State bizfileonline** — blocked by Imperva bot wall. --- ## 6. Summary of discrepancies / unverified items | Claim | Status | |---|---| | CA number 5897536 | ✅ Verified (2 sources) | | Incorporated Sept 9, 2023 | ✅ Verified (2 sources) | | Stock corporation | ✅ Verified (2 sources) — but **Delaware-formed**, CA-registered (foreign corp) | | Agent David Horlick, 6129 Alcott St, LA 90035 | ✅ Verified (2 sources) | | 2120 University Ave, Berkeley | ⚠️ VisualVisitor snippet only (site blocked); F6S shows SF location | | ~2 employees | ⚠️ VisualVisitor snippet only; no second source | | NAICS 541511 | ❌ **Unverified** — no source found | | why.com registrant | ✅ Verified — **Perfect Privacy LLC (hidden)**; Ockams not named in WHOIS | | Ockams operates why.com | ✅ Verified — site footer + Wayback snapshot | | Founders/people | ✅ Horlick + Richmond (bizprofile + F6S) | **Bottom line:** Ockams Inc. (Delaware corp, CA-registered #5897536, officers David Horlick and Rasheed Richmond) operates why.com, but the domain's legal registrant is hidden behind Network Solutions' Perfect Privacy service. The NAICS code and employee count could not be independently verified, and the "California stock corporation" framing should be corrected to "Delaware-incorporated, California-registered foreign stock corporation."