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Unprecedented domain seizure shutters 84,000 sites

Original Article So now the power hungry gestapo is closing down entire domains under the "for the children" campaign. This is like shutting down all Google sites because one or more have child porn on them. 02/18/2011 By Dan Goodin Feds' Operation Powergrab slammed The federal government's unprecedented practice of confiscating internet domain names in secret court proceedings took a new and ominous turn last week when it resulted in the closure of as many as 84,000 website addresses. The power grab came last Friday, when the mooo.com, an address a service called Free DNS used to resolve more than user 84,000 websites was unceremoniously suspended at the registrar level. Sites that relied on mooo.com soon displayed a banner that said the domain name had been seized by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the main investigative arm of the US Department of Homeland Security...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues on February 20, 2011 (boomark / email).