Feds Catching Up With Proxies
Feds Catching Up With Proxies
The government agency in charge of the .us domain says anonymous registration was never supposed to be allowed, but the agency only noticed it was happening years after it began. By Kim Zetter.
By Kim Zetter
2:00 a.m. March 5, 2005 PDT
The Commerce Department has disput...more...Domain Owners Lose Privacy
Domain Owners Lose Privacy
The U.S. government says owners of .us domains can no longer register using proxy services. Critics say the move violates the First Amendment right to anonymous free speech. By Kim Zetter.
By Kim Zetter
2:00 a.m. March 4, 2005 PDT
The U.S. Commerce Department has ordered c...more... Feds Hunt Source of GOP Data
...he Secret Service requested the identities of Indymedia webmasters, which he says could have been obtained by performing a simple WHOIS lookup on the domain name or through Indymedia's own contact page.
The Secret Service also requested web logs related to certain posts on the Indymedia sites which ......more... Wisconsin, New York Unplug Matrix
...ommercial databases. The information includes driver's license pictures, addresses, professional licenses, names of neighbors and relatives, and even domain-name registration filings and hunting licenses.
Participating states agree to regularly feed their automobile and driver's license databases in......more... Matrix Expands to Wisconsin
...ommercial databases. The information includes driver's license pictures, addresses, professional licenses, names of neighbors and relatives, and even domain-name registration filings and hunting licenses.
Brian Rieselman, a spokesman for the Wisconsin attorney general's office, confirmed Wisconsin h......more... Rants Raves
... picking on the people ... and more.
2:00 a.m. Feb. 10, 2004 PDT
Date: 02/07/2004 02:55 PM
Name: Brad Kruse (brad.kruse@pobox.com)
Unnecessary (False Domain Info May Mean Jail, Feb. 7, 2004).
Providing false information to commit a crime is fraudulent and deceptive, and evidence of premeditation and......more... False Domain Info May Mean Jail
False Domain Info May Mean Jail
Congress may pass a bill that would impose stiff penalties on people who don't give real names and addresses when registering domain names and go on to break a law. Kiss online anonymity goodbye, opponents say. By Ryan Singel.
By Ryan Singel
2:00 a.m. Feb. 7, 2004 PDT...more... Junk-Fax Firm Disguising Rebirth
...Solutions and Data Research Systems all share the same agent for serving process, attorney James Mudd, who did not return repeated calls for comment. Domain registration records indicate that many of these companies' websites were all registered by the same person, Eric Brenner.
Brenner is also list......more... Looking for the Beef (.com)
...lers of domains hold out hope for something more. By Joanna Glasner.
By Joanna Glasner
2:00 a.m. May 12, 2003 PDT
Nowadays, not even the greediest of domain-name resellers expects to find a buyer willing to fork over the six- and seven-figure sums once paid for Web addresses like drugs.com or busine......more... |