question Domain seized by a registrar - attorney needed.

FreeAvailableDomains · Feb 18, 2019

A registrar seized 6 domains of mine 3 months ago. Justifying the seizure as part of ‘authority’ investigation. Nobody notified me before and no authority contacted me. The namesilo support refused to provide the name of their so called authority. There was no chance to defend myself and no proper answer during 3 months. I'm convinced their action was illegal and I would like to do something about it.

Can anyone recommend me a good attorney for such case?

Thank you.

jberryhill · Feb 18, 2019

What are the current nameservers for the domain names?

anf · Feb 19, 2019

Interesting, i have some domains with namesilo, never had problems.
So i highly doubt that namesilo would do this. Could you post the domains?
May be @namesilo can comment?

jberryhill · Feb 19, 2019

anf said:
May be @namesilo can comment?

If the nameservers are set to Shadowserver, then namesilo is not going to comment, since there are a number of domain names that have been seized pursuant to a sealed proceeding in a federal court. That's why I asked, but the OP is apparently not interested.

namesilo · Feb 20, 2019

These domains were suspended for illegal activity. As it states in our Terms and Conditions:
Prohibited domain names and illegal activities which may be subject to these provisions include, but are not limited to:

1. Domains and web sites prohibited by the laws of the United States and/or foreign territories in which you conduct business
2. Domains and web sites designed to encourage unlawful behavior by others, such as hate crimes, terrorism and child pornography
3. Domains and web sites that are tortuous or invasive of the privacy of a third party
4. Domains and web sites designed to harm or use unethically minors in any way
5. Domains and web sites involved in the transmission of unsolicited email
6. Domains and web sites involved in unauthorized repetitive, high volume inquires into any of the services provided by us or a third-party
7. Domains and web sites involved in copyright and/or trademark infringement
8. Domains transferred illegally from a different registrar without the previous Registrant's knowledge
REFUNDS WILL NOT BE ISSUED IF YOUR SERVICES ARE SUSPENDED FOR CAUSE PER THIS AGREEMENT.

THERE ARE ABSOLUTELY NO REFUNDS FOR BITCOIN PURCHASES.

If we determine that your account is engaged in repeated abuse of this Agreement then we may elect to terminate your entire account and all domains within your account.

jberryhill · Feb 20, 2019

namesilo said:
Domains and web sites that are tortuous

I'd love to know what a "tortuous" domain or web site might be.

"Tortuous" and "tortious" are two different words with two different meanings. You might want to look up their definitions.

wwwweb · Feb 20, 2019

FreeAvailableDomains said:
A registrar seized 6 domains of mine 3 months ago. Justifying the seizure as part of ‘authority’ investigation. Nobody notified me before and no authority contacted me. The namesilo support refused to provide the name of their so called authority. There was no chance to defend myself and no proper answer during 3 months. I'm convinced their action was illegal and I would like to do something about it.

Can anyone recommend me a good attorney for such case?

Thank you.

What course of business were you engaging in on the domains?

NYJimbo · Feb 20, 2019

Canadian drugs ?

jberryhill · Feb 20, 2019

wwwweb said:
What course of business were you engaging in on the domains?

wwwweb · Feb 20, 2019

Seeing a lot of this activity given our global
economy, and economies of scale from countries with abnormally low living wages. There is little recourse, and very high profitability factors in some sketchy sectors. Regulators are ripe to take over the Internet. Not assuming anything to the OP, but their frantic nature, lack of details, and namesilo’s response tend to point in the direction that there is more to this story.

carob · Feb 20, 2019

namesilo said:
Domains and web sites involved in the transmission of unsolicited email

Good rule.

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