According to TechDirt.com 20 more domain names were seized over the weekend by ICE, part of the Department of Homeland Security.
The domain names all allegedly involved sale of unauthorized NFL merchandise
The list of domains seized:
| beawholesaler.com |
| cheapcanjerseys.com |
| cheapjerseys16.com |
| cheapjerseys16.net |
| cheapjerseys21.com |
| cheapjerseyssite.com |
| cheapjerseyssite.net |
| fanjerseyshop.com |
| maxexercises.com |
| nfljerseyscheap.com |
| nfljerseyswholesales.com |
| nhlclubhouse.com |
| nhlnflwholesale.com |
| ravensjerseysmart.com |
| ravensjerseysshop.com |
| ravensjerseysstore.com |
| wholesalejerseyscheapnfl.com |
| wholesalejerseysonly.com |
| wholesaleusjersey.com |
| wholesaleusjerseys.com |
Good.
Hope they seize the domains of any website engaging in blatantly ripping off mark holders.
@LS Morgan
Yup, exactly. It’s good for legit domainers when scum like that get busted.
Tip:
One can set up a name server alert at domaintools.com on “Seizedservers.com” to watch the names flow in and out of ICE seizure, and be emailed when these are detected in the daily delta between gtld zones.
The worry is when they start getting into TM gray areas that aren’t slam dunks. Eventually, all the low hanging fruit will be gone, regulatory agents won’t have anything ‘easy’ so they’ll start making ‘chancy’ gray area cases that may or may not screw otherwise honest site operators. Say a major affiliate store auto-aggregates a bunch of content, some knockoff sports jersey maker from Vietnam gets fed into the inventory and ICE seizes the domain. That will happen, it’s inevitable.
“Worst case scenario’ is always the argument you can make against any sort of enforcement actions but at the end of the day, I can’t muster any sympathy for the rip-off operations.
WoW… i had no idea of the low level of intelligence of your readers.
seizing property without evidence or warrants is good… sure…
but i want to know why they weren’t put on the kill list. YaY for
America… it’s all downhill from here.
This is very good news and the very reason I have turned down “charcoal” deals to brand my CheapJerseys.com as a direct distributor or some other bullshit term as a front to sell all the sweatshop rip-off shit coming from china.
Not me –
Same with why I keep CheapDrugs.com/CheapMeds. very clean – i.e. no “Pharmacies” or “Doctor Networks” from India, Mexico or other parts of the world that not only manufacture bootleg meds – but act as their own “doctors” in approving scripts to US consumers.
This is very serious shit – and it is time that our worderful government cracks down on the obvious exploitations
“…seizing property without evidence…”
You don’t think there was any evidence? LOL. Here’s a protip.
If you’re walking down the street with a live rocket propelled grenade launcher, the cops don’t need to presume you innocent of anything before confronting you, they do not need a warrant to take that RPG away from you.
You don’t understand how laws are enforced. People openly engaging in illegal activities are subject to intervention from enforcement agencies with very little red tape.