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Uncle Sam: If It Ends in .Com, It’s .Seizable

  • 06-03-2012 07:25PM
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    Uncle Sam: If It Ends in .Com, It’s .Seizable
    When U.S. authorities shuttered sports-wagering site Bodog.com last week, it raised eyebrows across the net because the domain name was registered with a Canadian company, ostensibly putting it beyond the reach of the U.S. government. Working around that, the feds went directly to VeriSign, a U.S.-based internet backbone company that has the contract to manage the coveted .com and other “generic” top-level domains

    Full:
    http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/feds-seize-foreign-sites/


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