[NA-Discuss] Homeland Security seizes Domain Names

[Joly MacFie]

A couple of my questions resolved by the arrival of an ICE press release in
my inbox today.

The whole thing was timed for "Cyber Monday"

I'll forward the release in a separate mail.

j



On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Joly MacFie <joly at punkcast.com> wrote:

>
> Well, despite rumors of the whole thing being a hoax or stunt the NIPRCC
> appears to be genuine <http://www.ice.gov/iprcenter/> and the takedowns
> legit, but the confusion is understandable - the methods were obscure and
> devious. The inclusion of two visitor tracking scripts especially raised
> suspicions.
>
> http://rulingclass.wordpress.com/2010/11/28/the-background-dope-on-dhs-recent-seizure-of-domains/
>
> ICE did take out some sites in June, but did announce it officially
> http://www.ice.gov/news/releases/1006/100630losangeles.htm and checking
> one of the officially seized sites http://tvshack.net/ <http://tvshack.net/>  reveals
> a smaller graphic and none of the analytics scripts
>
> It does raise some questions
>
> 1) Why no confirming PR from ICE? http://www.ice.gov/news/
>
> 2) Why track visitors?
>
> 3) Why use third parties and hide behind anonymous whois?
>
> 4) Why are the redirected sites not Section 508 compliant?
>
> 5) Why do it over Thanksgiving holiday?
>
> As the above article notes it will be interesting to see if Afilias
> registered sites are the next target, and it is evident that COICA is
> required to similarly block non US registered domains.
>
> joly
>
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