Police and UK Registry work towards greater powers to close down sites

Nominet, the .uk registry, and the UK police are looking for greater powers to be able to shut down domains in response to requests from the law enforcement agencies.

"The changes will mean that if Nominet is given "reasonable grounds to believe [domains] are being used to commit a crime" it will remove them from the .uk registry."

This can either be seen as open to abuse for censorship, or as a positive step to shutdown web-based scams (of which we have been aware of at least two this week). Personally, I prefer to see it as the latter.

To read more, see the following article.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/25/nominet_crime/

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