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Re:Jotform domain seized by US due to user generated content by meow on Wednesday February 15, 2012 @10:20PM (#3597222)
Do you think this would have been averted if they took all the measures you are proposing ? There are no set guide lines here according to which the government is taking down stuff.. This is not DMCA related to create an process to take down stuff.. Even if they could not find the contact page, taking the whole website seems to be ridiculous thing to do.

I think things like this will make websites with user generated content to move away from .com domains and even move into countries where there is more due process to things like this.

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Re:Jotform domain seized by US due to user generated content by benologist on Wednesday February 15, 2012 @10:23PM (#3597231)
I think there's a decade of history that shows it could probably have been avoided - they're not the first free-x-hosting company to ever be abused for phishing.
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Re:Jotform domain seized by US due to user generated content by Zirro on Wednesday February 15, 2012 @10:32PM (#3597250)
The history of this matter stopped being relevant when domain-seizures stopped being the last option.
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Re:Jotform domain seized by US due to user generated content by benologist on Wednesday February 15, 2012 @10:40PM (#3597267)
The same risk existed last year alongside the many exploitable-by-phishing flavors of hosting. Although this wasn't even a domain seizure, this is just an overzealous domain registar which has also, always, been a risk to web services.
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