Domain Name News: “ICE Accidentally Takes Down 84,000 Websites” plus 1 more

ICE Accidentally Takes Down 84,000 Websites

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 11:36 AM PST

As reported before, the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has taken to seizing domain names when it sees potential copyright infringement or other unlawful items. On February 15th, as part of their “Operation Protect Our Children”, they seized another ten domain names. According to Torrentfreak, this included the domain mooo.com, which is used to operate some 84,000 sub domain sites through the Free DNS service. Apparently the ICE had discovered a child pornography site hosted on one of the sub domains.

It appears the domain mooo.com had its previous nameservers restored at the time of writing this, but for two days they displayed a message saying that the domain was seized due to child pornography.

[via ZDnet]

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ICANN Meeting in June Moved from Jordan

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 11:31 AM PST

According to an email by David A. Olive, Vice President, Policy Development Support at ICANN, sent to the GNSO mailinglist , ICANN will move it’s 41st public meeting from Jordan due to security concerns. The meeting will be held from June 19th to 24th, 2011. A formal announcement from ICANN is to follow. Rumors cite Singapore as the new location.

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