It’s almost surreal to be getting this letter from the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP) addressed to ICANN Registrars requesting that “you adopt and implement policies and procedures, consistent with this letter,”, given the timing of what we just went through with the City of London Police takedown requests. What are those policies and […]
Of Interest
Domains Locked in London Police Takedown Ordered To Be Transferred.
The National Arbitration Forum has just handed down its decision in respect to the three domain names locked down at Public Domain Registry in response to the City of London Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit takedown requests. The decision is in favour of easyDNS and orders the three names to be transferred to us. The […]
Verisign punts: easyDNS To Appeal Decision of "No Decision"
The never-ending odyssey of the London Police shakedown requests against numerous file sharing and bittorrent domains worldwide, it looks like we’ll have to push this all the way up to a TDRP panel to decide the fate of 3 domains locked-down at Public Domain Registry without valid grounds. To review, the London Police sent out […]
Microsoft XBOX-day outage a textbook case for Hot Swappable nameservers
In the run-up to the much anticipated Xbox launch, the Microsoft Corporation all but disappeared off the internet as all of their key domains went dark: xbox.com, microsoft.com, outlook.com, etc. While techcrunch ran an article positing that it was their Azure Cloud Platform that was at fault, the chatter on both the dns-operations and mail-ops […]
TDRP proceedings initiated in response to UK police shakedown
easyDNS has filed an RFE (Request For Enforcement) with the .COM/.NET registry operator (Verisign) under the ICANN Tranfers Dispute Resolution Policy (TDRP) to transfer-out three domains currently locked down by Public Domain Registry in response to the City of London (UK) police shakedown requests. The domains in question were initially suspended, taking the domains down. […]
Registrars that complied with "shakedown" requests may now be in violation of ICANN Transfers Policy
At the time we posted Whatever Happened To Due Process we were unaware that we were just one of many registrars receiving these notices from the London (UK) Police. We have since been made aware that this was part of a larger initiative against the BitTorrent space as a whole, and that most if not […]
