But, I do know that Google is a domain registrar, and they can see right past that little wall of anonymity into the real registration records.

How could Google see past the obscured contact details that such anonymizing registars place in the whois? Such services do not release any other personally identifying info into the wild (aka public whois)

This would actually be a fairly good explanation for why Google became a registrar in the first place – something that had people both confused and guessing their intentions.

For those who have emailed with funny questions:
1) My second grade teacher’s name was Mrs. Bates. No, I don’t recall if she was “hot.” At the time I was much more interested in Carolyn, the cute girl next door.
2) No, this guy isn’t targeting a PPC (porn, pills, and casinos) market, and trackback spam is not the kind of natural linking strategy I’m talking about.
3) When I say natural linking, I don’t mean goofy automated schemes that are supposed to “look natural.”

Anyone with success stories based on natural linking strategies, let me hear from you, there just might be a (natural) link in it for you.

http://www.seomoz.org/articles/advanced-link-building.php

Overtime, as search engines/alogrithms are built smarter, quality is what will get you noticed.

As Dan says, “it’s actually not that hard to play within the rules and win.”

Its simple. A couple of days research (and handy blogs like this one), and you have all the tools required for building quality current gen SEO websites with futureproof strategies.

Intelligent programming is destroying the evil spam market. :) Spam me quality!

I’m tipping something else gave him away; possibly a common site error, or using similar IPs or nameservers, and he was just unlucky enough to be sprung. Or having them all submitted to Google from the one IP address in a short range of time – now that could be a good giveaway! :)