The Details Behind The Government’s Recent Domain-Name Seizures

When Immigrations & Customs Enforcement agents seized 82 web domain names over the Thanksgiving weekend, it was an unprecedented event—not just because of the scope of the seizures, but also because the web sites grabbed included a search engine and some well-known music blogs. That’s outside the scope of the intellectual property issues ICE has traditionally dealt with, which involve counterfeit goods. Here's the affidavit that the government used to get its seizure warrant, and it lays out the reasoning behind the government’s move.