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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. Godaddy by neoform · · Score: 5, Informative

    As someone who had godaddy hold my domain hostage, this is great news.

    GoDaddy had received a single complaint from an anonymous source, which was apparently enough for them to threaten to revoke my domain if I didn't pay their $200 extortion fee.

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