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[Larry Brower <larry AT maxqe.com>]

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On 02/17/2011 11:56 AM, Jon Hebb wrote:

>> As with previous seizures, ICE convinced a District Court judge to sign a
>> seizure warrant, and then contacted the domain registries to point the
>> domains in question to a server that hosts the warning message. However,
>> somewhere in this process a mistake was made and as a result the domain of 
>> a
>> large DNS service provider was seized.
>>
>> The domain in question is mooo.com, which belongs to the DNS provider
>> FreeDNS. It is the most popular shared domain at afraid.org and as a result
>> of the authorities’ actions a massive 84,000 subdomains were wrongfully
>> seized as well. All sites were redirected to the banner below.
>>


This seems to be a play on words making it sound like they seized a DNS
provider which does not appear to be the case. It says 84K *subdomains*
meaning they did in fact only seize *ONE* domain, mooo.com. While I by
no means support ICE seizing domains, in this instance if just one of
those subdomains was compromised and hosting the content then honestly
IMO they were justified in it. It isnt like they seized a domain because
of copyright infringement, it was kiddie porn and the only real way to
ensure that the subdomain isnt pointed to another server in the event it
was done by the actual owner would be to disable the domain. In this
event it seems no different than godaddy or enom disabling a domain for
a violation of their TOS/AUP. There is a difference between this being
84K DOMAINS and it being 84K SUBDOMAINS so I don't see the need for all
the FUD about this.

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