Domain seizures: Is the Federal Government guilty of domain propaganda?

An interesting article by Jeff Roberts, staff writer at Paid Content brings some material information forward about the alleged misuse of seized domain names. Apparently, the Federal government and the ICE agency has been seizing domain names related to counterfeit goods; then it places its own anti-piracy propaganda videos on them. The videos attempt to [...]

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Cyber Monday Crackdown: ICE, ICE baby

More domains practicing the illegal game of selling counterfeit goods and soliciting piracy were seized today by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency. In a message, the U.S. State Department declared: “Seizure orders have been executed against 150 domain names of commercial websites engaged in the illegal sale and distribution of counterfeit goods [...]

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FBI shuts down massive network of Bad Domain names

Not content with taking over domains that are used to sell counterfeit products, the FBI has scored against international crime, once again. This time around, FBI is targeting bad domains. Not the ones with malicious content but just that: domains that are so bad and crappy that they aren’t worth reg fee. “We are doing [...]

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