It's made by a former piratebay founder. When you buy a domain from them, they act as a middleman and keep legal ownership of the domain thus shielding your PI somewhat from legal enforcement. They claim their hosting is "In secret locations in Sweden". Their LLC is located in Nevis (some tax evasion island).

There's also https://1984.hosting/ which runs a similar operation out of iceland.

Considering I haven't managed to run into malware or phishing sites on either of those providers they seem to be doing something right. Why are these so-called "evil" hosting companies less of a problem for me than namecheap, godaddy, and google?

Because their primary driven is something other than maximising profits.

maybe you haven't but they exist

Saint Kitts and Nevis is a sovereign state and part of the Commonwealth. It's primary business is tourism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Kitts_and_Nevis

Sweet! Thanks for the links guys! :^)

I used to use one of these Swedish hosts for a very large TV torrent tracker. They successfully batted off every attempt to shut it down.

The most successful attacks were against our donation payment providers, knocking our (considerable) income offline for a few days at a time.