Ok read the FSC site which before I did not want to read a ton of legal stuff just after waking up. I think DN is in some serious trouble here. They were not hosting the site. According to them it's ok for them to shut down your domain with just a received complaint. I would presume most WM here are doing the same as me. Buying the names from them and hosting them elsewhere. If that's the case then any letter of complaint to them about your site, might leed them to shut you down. They have no legal grounds to stand on.
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“In most cases when there is a confirmed report of child porn, directNIC takes immediate action and shuts down the domain names because it is blatantly obvious that the customer is offering child porn,” Nance told XBIZ. “However, not every case is clear cut. The letter was intended to notify the customer of the potential issue that was reported to directNIC. This does not mean that the domains contain child porn; it only means that an investigation was commenced — i.e., we want to make sure that we do not facilitate the trading of child porn online.”
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Now I can understand their wanting to help prevent the spread of CP. But they state themselves that an investigation was commenced and that they did not find CP. If they found it then surly DN would be touting a differant horn on how they helped take down a CP site. But their TOS clearly states they are not responsible for stuf hosted elsewhere. I honestly think the company screwed itself here. Even more so if the guy gets the documents and not one person has bad ID. They are a domain naming service and do nothing but place a pointer record on your domain name. Will they be around after this? Sure. Will they most likly settle in court? I would get this out of the public eye ASAP.
2006-12-15, 01:56 PM
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