Feds Seize 307 Sports Domains Ahead of Sunday's Super Bowl

The Super Bowl is like a goose that lays golden eggs from which cash cows hatch. It makes obscene amounts of money. So, that could be why the DHS has stepped up its confiscation of sports-related domains in the run-up to Sunday's match—nuking a total of 307 separate sites.
The seizures were part of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) project, Operation in Our Sites. ICE leveraged civil-seizure laws conventionally used to confiscate physical assets with suspected ties to illegal activity (being stolen, fenced, used in another crime, etc). They exploited the fact that .net, .com, and .org are controlled by US organizations (Verisign and the Public Internet Registry) to not only tak... »read more

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