[governance] Nominet plans to take down domains suspected of being used for criminal activity

[Katitza Rodriguez]

"We believe that formal policy advice is needed to underpin proposals 
for a change to Nominet’s Terms and Conditions to give a contractual 
basis to suspend domains where Nominet has reasonable grounds to believe 
they are being used to commit a crime (e.g. a request from an identified 
UK Law Enforcement Agency)."

"What is current practice?
There are increasing expectations from Law Enforcement Agencies that 
Nominet and its members will respond quickly to reasonable requests to 
suspend domain names being used in association with criminal activity 
and Nominet has been working with them in response to formal requests. 
Experience has been developed by working with key Law Enforcement 
Agencies in a trusted relationship. This led to the suspension of over 
1,200 domain names being used for criminal activity, working on a 
request from the Police Central eCrime Unit in December 2009. We expect 
action to be taken by the registrar in the first instance. Action at the 
registry level would only be required if the incident was urgent or the 
registrar failed to comply. Nominet provide registrars with a lock which 
can be used in the case of criminal activity."

http://www.nominet.org.uk/digitalAssets/45676_Dealing-with-domains-associated-with-criminal-activity.pdf


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