WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A DOMAIN IS SEIZED BY AITHORITIES

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A popular sports streaming site I used to frequent has been seized.

Just wondering, what will happen to the site's owner. Will legal proceedings follow?
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Depends
If prosecuted under Title 18 then yeah potentially
if caught then yeah
if not in US and a country who gives no shits about US then probably no
if in a country who also believe it is illegal, then yeah probably

alot of what ifs and variables
 
They throw the domain into jail where it becomes the bitch of the domain with the strongest backlink profile.
Yeah, backlinks from the world's most authoritative news sites.

@OP: Mention the domain name here, I'll add the domain into the to-do buying list when it'll get off the agency's radars. :D
 
Yeah, backlinks from the world's most authoritative news sites.

@OP: Mention the domain name here, I'll add the domain into the to-do buying list when it'll get off the agency's radars. :D
GoDaddy will offer it to you at a premium domain price of $100,000
 
Nothing will happen to the person who owned that domain. As usual he or she would be chilling in his or her mansion located in a safe haven somewhere and he or she would have already "resurrected" his or her activities using another domain in an even more "effective" manner.
However, if the activities involved fraud and cheating, then the arms of certain individuals can easily reach into any safe haven and "safely" settle scores.
 
A popular sports streaming site I used to frequent has been seized.

Just wondering, what will happen to the site's owner. Will legal proceedings follow?View attachment 237259

The careless disgruntled owner immediately signs up on a Blackhat forum with a username highly reminiscent of their past behavior.
Who is the Ass Clown now? start polishing that hole for the real clowns you're about to meet.
 
The careless disgruntled owner immediately signs up on a Blackhat forum with a username highly reminiscent of their past behavior.
Who is the Ass Clown now? start polishing that hole for the real clowns you're about to meet.
I am an innocent farmer
 
However, if the activities involved fraud and cheating, then the arms of certain individuals can easily reach into any safe haven and "safely" settle scores.
it is better to look at both sides of the coin. Hence if above ^^^ is the case, then it's gonna be like ↓↓↓ :-
 
The domain that is being seized is:

  • Moved to other registar
  • Stays in the registar and the NS are changed to other NS servers (FBI have own Cloudflare DNS servers for seized domains)
  • Locked (no one can register) how many time? We don't know, probably for years or permanent (I doubt that be permanent).
Authorities can seize all domains, but in case of ccTLD (Country level domains) like .ru, .su, .co, .cr, .se, .li, .sc, .to is more harder (.to is now more easy due to agreement)
The best domain that looks more safe is .ORG, most of domains that are seized are .com and .net (.org is one that remains "safest" than .com and .net)

Yes, .org can be seized, but is not to easily like .com and .net, that is why .org is a good choice.
The ccTLD (country domains tld is difficult because who manages that is the country, for example US can't seize .ru without contacting .ru that also applies to .cr, .se etc ...)

Cheers
 
From what I have seen, in some cases there is no legal "due process" , companies like Legit Script can simply make a call and the domain is seized, no charges, no indictment, no hearing, no arbitration like in a UDRP, nothing.

Meanwhile I have been reading lately about weak minded powers that be in various Gov's, NGO's and internet governance talking heads making statements for censoring via DNS to sites that are against chosen narratives and politics. It's bad enough that Gxxgle does it, but going down to the DNS level is really $hitty.
 
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