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It's Official: Registrars Cannot Hold Domains Hostage Without a Court Order

Posted by Soulskill on from the dns-hostage-negotiators-suddenly-unemployed dept.

Stunt Pope writes "Back when the City of London Police issued those 'takedown requests' to domain registrars, most complied. However, as previously reported here, easyDNS didn't. A bunch of the taken-down domains wanted to move to easyDNS. One problem: their registrar wouldn't let them. It took awhile, but easyDNS fought it. They've finally gotten a ruling (PDF) under the ICANN policy that ordered the hostage domains transferred."

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  1. Re:hmm.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It's up to you to take steps to protect yourself. If your going to use Microsoft Windows it's your own damn fault if you get infected. I should have a right to a domain even if its involved in criminal activity. The internet is not a single country and there are no laws which apply globally. Anything short of this is just stupid.