Visitors to these websites will now find a seizure banner that notifies them that the domain name has been seized by federal authorities and educates them that willful copyright infringement is a federal crime.
In November 2010, 82 domain names of commercial websites engaged in the illegal sale and distribution of counterfeit goods and copyrighted works were seized.
Unfortunately, we understand (and are concerned) that once a domain name has been seized, it eventually returns to the pool of domains available to the public for registration unless it is purchased by the government.
He wants to know why the domain names are being seized, but why there's no attempt to prosecute those behind the sites, if these are really criminals.
Individuals accessing the websites will now find a banner notifying them that the domain name of that website has been seized by federal authorities.
Thus far, the Operation has seized more than 90 domain names for websites used to sell infringing products and resulted in 30 million visitors seeing banners alerting them that the domain names had been seized.
The defendants were charged with fraud, money laundering, and violation of United States federal gambling laws, and certain domain names for the sites were seized by the FBI.
The 17 websites have all been shut down, and now show a banner stating that the domain name of that website has been seized by federal authorities.
As usual, ICE redirected the TVshack domain to a banner indicating the domain name had been seized by the federal government.
In May 2011, the domain name in question was seized by the regulator of South African web domain names, and given to Du Preez.