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Inside the DOJ's Domain Name Graveyard
hugheseyau writes "Between November 2010 and May 2011, the US Department of Justice (DoJ), under many banners including the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), seized over 140 domain names from sites allegedly engaged in the 'illegal sale and distribution of counterfeit goods and copyrighted works' or other illegal activities. But what exactly happens when domains are seized in such a manner? This article provides insight into the takedown process as well as providing a unique look into the DoJ's domain name graveyard."
Intellectual property is censorship. The First Amendment should be read as an implicit repeal: if only "protected speech" is protected - for example, speaking a derivative work is not regarded as protected - then there is no anti-censorship provision whatever.
DNS is weak, and seizing domains demonstrates its weakness. Please, continue to seize domains, so that the nerds will be more motivated to fix the broken DNS system. Google does a pretty good job already, as searching for a website usually brings up the correct domain. I would like to see a more permanent solution.
before I click on any of those links.
what they were doing that was so illicit, perhaps borntrade was selling babies.
Nullius in verba
It's mostly counterfeit goods domains seized, almost nothing for online pirate streaming, though a few of those are there.
But this points out that the DNS system is a weak link, and can no longer be trusted. Something peerless should replace it, but at this point in time, anything that does needs to bridge the existing DNS system.
Will the domain names stay 'seized' forever? Or will the DOJ allow them to be sold at some point in the future, the way other seized assets are sold off?
Taxes - they WILL be used against you.
If only my website could be popular enough to have a government takedown
*sigh*
I really am against the policy of the DoJ. They are policing the Internet and are ignoring fundamental values that have made the Internet a great place.
Hey, Slashdot; Could you clue me? What is the state of alternative DNS systems, particularly something mesh- or web-of-trust- oriented? Any live systems that are usable now? Any projects that look promising where I could lend a hand with code or whatever?
Stop-Prism.org: Opt Out of Surveillance
It's really hard to visualize just how fundamentally corrupt the US government is. Today's /. gives a clue - Patent Trolls, Video Felonies and a school superintendent pointing out that schools are less important the prisons.
We the people, really need to get in on the process and figure out how to buy some politicians.
Redtube... Redtube... Redtube...
Nope. I'm good!
I remember scanning their "this site has been seized" server with a tool that would basically try to brute-force a directory tree on the server (did this through Tor of course) hoping to find something exploitable or embarassing (just for the lulz). I got bored before I turned up anything too interesting but I did turn up an Apache sample page with some icons or something.
Are you saying Google is a good solution to fixing DNS? While Chrome 13 hiding the URL says something about the state of DNS, I don't like the idea of trusting a newer, "better" DNS to any corporate entity...
sysadmins and parents of newborns get the same amount of sleep.
Censorship, , hell, even war crimes--all perfectly fine as long as you have the money to do it.
Any volunteers want to add gov't domain names to the gov't's own list of seized domains? I'm sure they'll have a great laugh about it! Note to law enforcement, I'm not volunteering!
how is babby formed?
These DOJ dns servers should be a primary target for Anonymous.
However, it lacks a historical WHOIS tool.. and using a historical WHOS tool I can see that the domain had an invalid WHOIS record until they anonymised it yesterday...
Never email donotemail@WeAreSpammers.com
seizedservers.com and seizedservers.net are on the list. Does this mean that the DOJ actually registered these two names, or that someone else registered them, and the DOJ seized them to prevent them from infringing the DOJ's exclulsive status as the king of domain name seizures?
I'm more concerned about why they seized them, something tells me it'll be published as a backwater news story somewhere and will be forgotten. There is a ton of illegal shit going on on the internet mostly outside the US borders, but what put these domains over? (ex. spam, porn, scam) . There's little tid bits and pieces out there, but nothing definitive and all speculative (ex. http://torrentfreak.com/us-resume-file-sharing-domain-seizures-110201/) . This one infringed on copyright and probably pissed off the national leagues of the states. I wonder if the rest have similar stories... some are obvious because of the DN.
I noticed that most are .com, but I did notice 5 in .net, 2 in .org and 1 in .cc.
Does the US own .org and .cc like the own .com/.net? (one may argue finer points of ownership, but if they can do with them as they will, the point is moot).
If they the .org TLD, why would pirate-bay.org be up?
Is it a matter of what registrar they are registered with and it just so happens .com is almost (or is entirely?) owned by US registrars, while .net/.org/.cc have multi-national registrars?
that
the economic law is protecting the economy if the economic law were not ,if economic law WERE NOT protecting something(obv not bigger and greator than the ppl), economic crimes COULD NOT be committed , CAN'T WITHOUT ECONOMIC LAW, because of ECONOMIC LAW.
protecting the economy they couldn't rehabilitate people for economic
crimes committed because the economic crimes committed cannot be
committed without the economy
the above proves the economic crimes are committed because of the economic law
Basically, they provided the perfect incentive for a non-centralized DNS service - and there are already people working on P2P services which will maintain copies to render such actions worthless. The US government is becoming superfluous - which may be the point. In the last two years actions by the US Government has essentially rendered the US Dollar as THE reserve currency obsolete - which is why the markets are so volatile and GOLD is going through the roof as people scramble to find an alternative. Just as Obama has rendered the Office of the President of the US - once considered to be the most powerful man on earth to be a paper tiger, and it just keeps coming on - Rome lasted for a thousand years, the US a scant 200 or so.
The ultimate power resides in the hands of the people - in the US it is in the form of the Second Amendment as a final resort - but the cell-phone and it's capability of taking photos and movies renders the actions of all oppressors open to the world to see and condemn. And the power of the Internet and numbers the power to oppose and change.
I entered one of my own ips and got back only 7 of the 40 or so domains hosted on that box. Most of those domains have been there for years. Any other tool I've ever tried for this before always disclaims that the results will be incomplete as they are based on using search engines.
Don't forget that in many cases there will have been no proof whatsoever of wrongdoing, just suspicion and unsupported copyright/trademark claims. We shouldn't be enabling the authoritarians by publishing puff pieces like this for their macho 'takedown' nonsense.