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27 Mac cloud brands excluded from our comparisons pending operator or affiliation verification.

Updated September 23, 2026. Two separate reviews: 5 additional operator-transparency exclusions and the earlier 22-brand cluster. These names identify websites and trade brands, not independently verified registered companies.

Current listing policy: the separate September 24 identity and US-focused eligibility review leaves 19 companies and 117 offers listed. The September 23 retention decisions and counts below are historical; GetMac, RentAMac, Macly and Semaphore are now outside that selection. Eligibility is not a company service grade or a finding of wrongdoing.

These are editorial exclusions, not findings of fraud or nonexistence. Listings and offers are excluded from our directory, comparisons, API, MCP and current GitHub snapshot. Underlying research and historical Git commits are retained. A remaining listing is not a certification or endorsement.

GitHub report. GitHub access currently requires repository permission; this page and both evidence downloads are public.

Operator-transparency review · September 23

We checked 11 named providers from the supplied entity-map method log. For the five below, the public pages reviewed did not clearly identify the legal contracting party. This is a limited, dated finding—not proof that no legal entity exists. An identifiable operator may be a company or a sole trader. These five are not attributed to the 22-brand cluster.

This follow-up removes 5 providers and 14 offers, leaving 36 providers and 180 offers at publication. These are catalog counts, not legal-entity counts.

Download operator-review evidence (CSV, 24 observations) · Detailed follow-up on GitHub

Corrections: providers retained in the September 23 review

The sources reviewed then contradicted several gaps in the supplied log. Naming an operator does not by itself verify registration, ownership or service quality. See the current identity evidence table for later eligibility decisions and the clarified use.computer affiliate relationship.

Two discrepancies recorded without delisting in that review

Semaphore: its privacy policy lists company number 61791213; an employer job posting lists 22009133. The reason is unresolved without a direct Serbian registry check.

Mac Mini Vault: its Terms name CyberLynk Network, Inc.; its cookie policy names CyberLynk Network, LLC. This concerns CyberLynk, not a proven conversion of an entity called Mac Mini Vault. A conversion has not been verified.

The supplied 63-row entity-map file and its part files were not available for this review. We do not certify its overall verification totals or exhaustive registry negatives. No purchases, accounts, paid searches or provider contact were used.

The earlier 22-brand cluster

Investigation dated September 22, 2026. Initial publication review: September 23, 2026 UTC (September 22 in Los Angeles). Scope: the 22 brands below, plus vmzen.com as a related site. This follow-up does not claim a new full recheck of the cluster.

Our listing decision

We found repeated payment-platform configuration, cross-brand references and shared mail infrastructure. We do not consider these brands sufficiently verified to present them as independent alternatives. Their listings and offers are excluded from the directory, comparisons, API and MCP. The underlying research records are retained for review.

This is an editorial exclusion, not a finding of fraud. Shared software, a reseller platform or a common service provider can produce overlapping infrastructure. Common legal ownership, the Stripe merchant identity and the actual contractual counterparty for every brand remain unverified.

Download cluster evidence (CSV, 35 observations)

The affected brands

These names identify websites and trade brands, not independently verified registered companies. vmzen.com is included in the investigation but was not a separate listing in our catalog.

What we independently reproduced

1. Matching payment configuration, after domain normalization

On 22 of the 23 investigated domains, the public guest gateway endpoint returned the same configuration after replacing each brand's domain in logo URLs: gateway 4, EpayUsdt / USDT-TRC20, one-time payments; gateway 3, Stripe / Credit Cards, one-time and recurring payments; USD only. runamac.com returned HTTP 502, so no gateway result was obtained there. Examples: ArmMini and kvmrun.

The original report called these responses “byte-identical.” The raw responses actually differ in their brand-specific logo URLs; the reviewed CSV records both raw and normalized SHA-256 hashes. The public frontend supplies an anonymous x-client-ssaid header and language header. No account login or payment was used. Gateway IDs describe software configuration, not a Stripe merchant account.

2. A mail-infrastructure link across the proposed families

We reproduced MX records pointing to each domain's mail host, A records resolving those mail hosts to the same address (178.95.79.18), and SPF records including that address for armmini.com, jexmac.com and kvmrun.com. This connects the previously proposed DNS families at the mail layer; a shared mail service is also a possible explanation. Public DNS sources: ArmMini, JexMac, kvmrun. The CSV links the corresponding A and TXT records.

3. Two direct cross-brand references

kvmrun.com's sitemap listed sitemap URLs on vmzen.com. SpinMac's privacy policy named the local-storage identifier macxcode_ssaid. These are concrete cross-brand references. They support a shared-template or platform relationship, but do not establish a parent company or the direction of copying.

4. A self-described operator, not a registry match

vmzen.com's Terms of Service name “vmzen Inc.” as a party to the agreement. The governing-law clause refers to its place of registration without identifying the jurisdiction. We have not verified that name in a corporate registry or established that it is the legal counterparty for the other 22 brands.

What the evidence does not establish

Evidence scope and review

The supplied investigation described 404 research rows. Our downloadable file is a smaller, independently reproduced publication subset, not a claim that every original row was verified. It contains dated observations, source URLs and the gateway comparison hashes. No customer accounts, private personal data, credentials or raw provider dumps are published.

Remaining questions include legal registration, the counterparty for each brand, the Stripe merchant identity and whether the relationships are common ownership, reselling or shared platform services. No purchases, account creation, paid WHOIS searches or provider contact were made during this publication review.

Corrections and reinstatement

We will reconsider a listing when verifiable contracting-party information is available, along with an explanation of the relationships where affiliation is at issue. Corrections should identify the domain, disputed claim and primary evidence, such as a registry record or first-party operator disclosure. A lack of response is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Repository collaborators can submit a correction on GitHub. Because the repository is currently private, external readers without access will need to request a review through their existing contact with Mac Cloud Index; we do not yet have a public submission form.