- From: Noah Mendelsohn <nrm@arcanedomain.com>
- Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2010 14:50:25 -0500
- To: "www-tag@w3.org" <www-tag@w3.org>
From IT World [1]: ---- Over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the principal investigative arm of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), led an alphabet soup of government agencies in seizing the domain names of 82 Web sites (PDF) that ICE said were "engaged in the illegal sale and distribution of counterfeit goods and copyrighted works" (See: Operation In Our Sites v. 2.0). The seizures were accomplished by getting the VeriSign registry, owner of the .com and .net top-level domains, to change the authoritative domain-name servers for the seized domains to servers controlled by DHS. [...] Within days of the ICE/DHS seizures, at least three separate initiatives to work around the DNS had been announced --- Several specific systems are described. If things like this proliferate, it could have a significant impact on the de-facto operation of the Web. Noah [1] http://www.itworld.com/legal/129947/net-censorship-dns-alternative
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