domain names

A 28-year old man from Comstock Park, Michigan, has been arrested and charged with criminal copyright infringement.

Yonjo Quiroa is the alleged operator of nine of the sixteen streaming related domain names that were seized a few hours ago as part of 'Operation Fake Sweep'.

Homeland Security's ICE unit has started the ninth phase of Operation In Our Sites. Following on from last week's action targeting online shops selling counterfeit goods, US authorities have just seized the domain names of 11 Korean movie download portals.

For the first time since the seizures began the banner has been updated to include Korean language.

Despite challenges concerning the legality of ICE seizing domain names prior to any sort of adversarial hearing, it appears that ICE has no intention to slow down.

The group quietly seized 20 more domain names over the weekend, and it looks like most involved sites selling unauthorized NFL jerseys.

A U.S. federal court has ruled that the domain seizure of sports streaming site Rojadirecta does not violate the First Amendment, and has refused to hand the domain back to its Spanish owner.

The order stands in conflict with previous Supreme Court rulings and doesn't deliver much hope to other website owners who operate under U.S. controlled domain names.

The U.S. Government is celebrating the importance of intellectual property by educating visitors to the domain names it seized in previous months.

These visitors are now redirected to an anti-piracy video instead. The viral video is running on 65 of the seized domains which have now become property of the Government, and shows how illegal downloads can financially ruin innocent workers.

Ah, the power of censorship. It appears that some other countries may be jealous of Homeland Security getting to seize all those domain names, or the proposed COICA law that would allow even more domain seizures in the US. drew points out that, over in the UK, law enforcement is also asking for official power to force Nominet to shut down domains that it claims were "used by criminals." That seems pretty broad.

Sex.com, considered to be one of the world's most valuable domain names for obvious reasons, is up for sale at domain broker Sedo along with two related USPTO trademark registrations.

How much are you willing to pay for high-priced sex?

ICANN has approved the first top level Chinese language domain names: .中国 and .中國 for China; .台灣 and .台湾 for Taiwan; and .香港 for Hong Kong.

This opens the door for domain names entirely in Chinese, which should at some level better serve the 20% of the world’s population that speaks the language.

From the Otto on WordPress blog there's a recent post (made more useful by the release of WordPress 3) about how to use the multi-site abilities of this latest version to create multiple sites with their own domain names attached to each.

Enterprise Networking Planet: "Until this week, Latin characters were required to access a complete domain name on the Internet.

That has now changed as the first full Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) are now live, enabling users for the first time ever to access websites with an entirely non-Latin character set."