Report: U.S. registrars won't take down illegal steroid sites
Posted by Maxim Weinstein Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:51:00 GMT
The folks at KnujOn teamed up with watchdog site LegitScript to put together a report about websites selling anabolic steroids illegally. They found that, although the site owners themselves may be outside the U.S., they are using U.S.-based domain registrars, many of which don’t enforce their own terms of use prohibiting illegal use of registered domain names:
All 156 websites are registered with eight domain name registrars located in the United States. The website operators often use anonymous registration services offered by the registrars, or are located outside of the United States.
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Three weeks prior to the report’s release, LegitScript and KnujOn requested that the US-based domain name registrars terminate, or “take down,” the steroid websites identified in the report. However, most of the websites were still accessible at the time of the report’s release.
“So far, most of the websites are still active,” said Garth Bruen, President of KnujOn. “This is a big problem, and it’s important that the domain name registrars terminate access to these websites.”
More details can be found in the full report.
