Amazing that he managed to stay anonymous.

Not sure if he's as anonymous as Satoshi (probably not) but I think he didn't want to show his face in court to the general public; making him known to a lot more people than before.

Didn't know that was possible with domain names.

https://namecheap.com/ is one domain provider which allows to hide your personal information from people using https://www.whois.com/whois/.