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Inside the DOJ's Domain Name Graveyard

Posted by timothy on from the government-cheese-dot-com dept.

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."

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  1. intellectual property is censorship by Hazel+Bergeron · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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.

  2. What happens over time? by hackertourist · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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?

    1. Re:What happens over time? by circletimessquare · · Score: 3, Interesting

      i got dibs on "bishoe.com"

      for my bisexual shoe fetish site

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      intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
  3. Re:Ignorance of net neutrality by jhoegl · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Are you telling me that you are perfectly fine with a government that jails violent people because they do not *like* it? What's next?
    - Jail a person because they have sold drugs
    - Jail a person because they force people to sell their bodies
    - Jail a person because they ran over someone else while drunk

    and the list goes on...

  4. Pssssshhhh by cultiv8 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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...

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    sysadmins and parents of newborns get the same amount of sleep.
  5. Re:Ignorance of net neutrality by houstonbofh · · Score: 3, Interesting

    - Jail a person because they ran over someone else while drunk

    If you can run over someone in the US while driving drunk in France, it may be a comparison. However, this is the US going to France and kidnapping the drunk driver for running over someone IN FRANCE. And is still a very bad analogy.