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The good news is that Namecheap found the attack early and took measures to defeat the attempt to log into NameCheap accounts, the bad news is this is not just a security issue for Namecheap but seems to be along the lines of the groups of Russian Hackers which gained access to hundreds of thousands of email accounts and millions of user Id’s and passwords last month so its an issue for all Internet Users

Domain registrar and shareware repository Tucows will be going dark in opposition of SOPA on the 18th.

Ah, never mind, I sent myself to http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=1%261+sopa and found it. Good, now I don't have to move my domains.

Announced in 2010 Found on Reddit.

It's probably time to remind Google what "Don't be evil" is. Breaking the Internet is definitely a no-no.

I wonder how many other companies need to be reminded of this. Anybody got a list?

It sound like the Turkish government is beginning to emulate the repressive and regressive moral "leadership" established by the totalitarian Internet regimes in Australia, the US and the UK.

Hey! You get all the free speech you can pay for!

Have you read parts of the ICANN PDF (second link from this overview page)? Start on page 25, but pay attention to page 29. First, your domains are frozen by the registry, and your registrar is obligated to freeze your whois information. You have two weeks to respond -- hopefully you don't receive email at a frozen domain! Also, hope that the authoritative nameservers any of your domains (URS targeted or not) use are not frozen!

The UDRP process was more transparent, often used larger panels of arbiters, and domains under complaint were not disabled until the UDRP process was complete. The URS describes some unnamed Third Party provider to process the URS request. Where is the transparency? The provider should be required to be open and publicly post all of the filings, requests, and responses. They should also require multi-person teams to not concentrate so much power in the hands of a single individual. It should be modeled after a judiciary system with checks and balances. I'm not saying UDRP can't be streamlined to process bulk requests and even short the response time, but two weeks is very short- especially if your email is disabled at you must wait for the certified letter.

URS is a -- claimed to be guilty, freeze your domain, then prove your innocence -- process.

Here you go, sir, the court order.

Which shows a circuit court, not a district court ruling.

Not really enough for a "badsummary" tag, but a little sloppy nonetheless.

Here you go, sir, the court order.