[At-Large] NYTimes : U.S. Shuts Down Web Sites in Piracy Crackdown

Christian de Larrinaga cdel at firsthand.net
Tue Nov 30 21:39:48 UTC 2010


Here is one domain that has been seized.
http://torrent-finder.com/

More information on what is going on was pointed out to me by Christopher Parsons. 
http://rulingclass.wordpress.com/2010/11/28/the-background-dope-on-dhs-recent-seizure-of-domains/



Christian 

On 30 Nov 2010, at 15:23, Dev Anand Teelucksingh wrote:

> Another article :
> http://domainincite.com/icann-had-no-role-in-seizing-torrent-domains/
> 
> <http://domainincite.com/icann-had-no-role-in-seizing-torrent-domains/>Dev T
> 
> On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 3:38 PM, McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> HI
>> 
>> On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 10:25 PM, Dev Anand Teelucksingh
>>> 
>>> So, how does that work? The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement
>>> served the seizure warrant on the gTLD registry and the gTLD registry
>>> then updated the DNS records for that domain name to point to ICE's
>>> DNS servers?
>> 
>> seems to be...except that the DNS records point to what seems to be an
>> outsourced entity, not to the Government themselves....very curious
>> indeed.
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> McTim
>> "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A
>> route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel
>> 
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