US Not The Only Country To Seize Domains: Nominet Shuts Down 3,000+ .Co.Uk Sites

[the_poet]

According the telegraph.co.uk, Nominet, the not-for-profit company that controls the registry of “dot uk” domain names, held a meeting in London on Monday, with authorities including the Metropolitan Police and the Serious and Organized Crime Agency which both lobbied for a new system that would allow them to suspend “dot uk” domain names to tackle online crime.

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[renek]

to tackle crime.. wonder what the crimes are.

 

[Wargy]

There is a difference if a Registry takes down a phishing domain or a domain that contains links to some tv episodes.

 

[exsedo]

It's all good news IMO.
All the bad things about the internet should be targeted, which includes, but is not limited to, phishing, spam, money laundering, ponzi schemes, cybersquatting and typosquatting, fraudulant sales techniques etc.
Ban them all :hehe: