Verisign wants power to shut sites down

Searching_ _ _ · Oct 11, 2011

In a request made yesterday to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, Verisign outlined a new “anti-abuse” policy that would allow the company to terminate, lock, or transfer any domain under its registration jurisdiction under a number of circumstances. And one of those circumstances listed was “requests of law enforcement.”
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In part, the policy is aimed at empowering Verisign to act quickly to take down sites that are harboring malware, launching phishing attacks, or otherwise being used to launch attacks across the Internet.

But the request also asks for authority to take down sites quickly for a number of reasons beyond malware, including “to protect the integrity, security and stability of the DNS; to comply with any applicable court orders, laws, government rules or requirements, requests of law enforcement or other governmental or quasi-governmental agency, or any dispute resolution process; (and) to avoid any liability, civil or criminal, on the part of Verisign, as well as its affiliates, subsidiaries, officers, directors, and employees... Verisign also reserves the right to place upon registry lock, hold or similar status a domain name during resolution of a dispute.”
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Verisign wants power to shut sites down upon law enforcement request - Arstechnica

dw426 · Oct 12, 2011

They don't need the power to shut down sites for LEA. LEA is quite capable of it themselves, along with the ISPs said websites are hosted on. Notice the "avoid liability" inclusion? The same requirement was made for telecommunications companies. It's another power grab, one the government will quite happily help with.

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