So is .org still managed by PIR? Is there a list of domains they suspended because its content (or its user's purpose) was in conflict with their rules?
I'm not really informed enough about this to fully understand it, but if I own a .org domain, can anyone explain to me what repercussion can this have?
> Are they manually checking the validity of .org domains?
There are no restrictions on registrants for a .org domain. It was intended as a place for non-profit organizations, or other uses that didn't fit within .com or .net, and that was never enforced or enforceable, and the restrictive intent was removed.
This is interesting, if only because the domain registrar hasn't dropped the domain or site, but outright disabled it so the site owners can't access it. Wonder what kind of legal threat they could have received that caused the domain registrar to do that?
I neglected to mention this happened only a few months ago, after the domain had been quietly and happily registered for several years. Unless you're saying ICANN changed the rules recently, but I'm having trouble finding a record of that.
This is not a good comparison. It is ICANN's policy to suspend domains that do not have their whois verified. It is very plausible that they simply forgot or did not bother to do that. Furthermore, as can be seen in other comments, other people have had their domains suspended as well, so it's not like they're using some obscure law. Finally, thepiratebay have long since migrated to the .se TLD (plus others), and have successfully recovered from domain takedowns before, so there would be little to gain from suspending their .com domain.
Does anyone know if when FBI/DOJ seizes domain names, do they only do so when an arrest is imminent? It's quite obvious in this case that it was allowed to remain operational while they were investigating. I wonder if that's the general MO for domain seizures. Because there are just tons of domains that should be seized that are still operating. Why don't those get taken down? No way FBI/etc aren't aware of these.
"In 2005, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration ruled that registrants of .us domains may not secure private domain name registration via anonymizing proxies, and that their contact information must be made public." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.us
This is the same reason their .is domain was yanked.
That wikipedia link states that they stopped registering domains that were searched using WhoIs but continued doing it when searching from their home page. So they didn't stop.
Are they still using these domains? Looks like they just stopped using them but didn't update the DNS records and now someone else has that IP address.
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