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Generic, exact match domains are often called “long tail” domains due to their length. In the case of FactoryHandbag.com, the domain is an exact match .com of “factory handbag” and that’s intentional. Google is generous to...
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August 11, 2022 DomainGang
counterfeit goods, Domain Crime, factory handbag, FactoryHandbag.com, seized by ice, Seized domains
The Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) has seized Simp3.com, a domain used to pirate music at a grand scale. Registered in 2015, Simp3.com provided downloads of mp3 music as seen in this capture from 2019: The domain was seized along with the assoc...
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June 23, 2022 DomainGang
CoroUrbano.com, CoroUrbanos.com, Domain Crime, Homeland Security Investigations, HSI, Pautamp3.com, Seized domains, Simp3.com
“Canada drugs” is a popular search on Google with almost one million results. It appears that Canada is a cheap provider of generic medications and the US is a big importer of such drugs. The matching .com domain, CanadaDrugs.com, was regis...
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October 25, 2021 DomainGang
Canada drugs, CanadaDrugs.com, Cybercrime Investigations Unit, dropped domains, Seized domains
Domain names and brands of pharmaceutical companies are often abused by peddlers of unlicensed or fake medications. Since the onslaught of Covid-19, scammers target companies such as Moderna that produce medications to fight the virus, registering doma...
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March 25, 2021 DomainGang
Domain Crime, Pfizer, PfizerMx.com, PfizerStockrate.com, Seized domains, US law
Sky Global is a Canadian company, creators of encryption software for phones. The US federal authorities have indicted two of its top executives for allegedly providing drug traffickers with the ability to evade surveillance. Jean-Francois Eap, Sky Glo...
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March 17, 2021 DomainGang
Domain Crime, Seized domains, Sky Global
A little over a year ago, the FBI seized the domain name WeLeakInfo.com, a rogue provider of hacked credentials. At the time, WeLeakInfo claimed to provide its clients a searchable index of personal information illegally obtained in over 10,000 data br...
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March 15, 2021 DomainGang
brian krebs, Domain Crime, Seized domains, WeLeakInfo, wli.design
Domain names and brands of pharmaceutical companies are often abused by peddlers of unlicensed or fake medications. Since the onslaught of Covid-19, scammers target companies such as Moderna that produce medications to fight the virus, registering doma...
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March 2, 2021 DomainGang
Domain Crime, Remdesivir, RemdesivirMx.com, Seized domains, US law
Almost 500 seized domains under the control of the US Marshals Service, a federal law enforcement agency in the United States, have been moved away from the typical parking page. These domains were shut down almost two years ago and were with the Chine...
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December 20, 2020 DomainGang
AliYun, Domain Crime, escorts domains, Seized domains, US Marshals Service
The United States has seized 27 domain names that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) unlawfully used to further a global covert influence campaign. According to the US Department of Justice, all 27 domains were being used in violation of U...
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November 5, 2020 DomainGang
Domain Crime, Seized domains, USDOJ
The CFTC charged PaxForex, a foreign exchange trading platform with offering illegal transactions in ether, litecoin and bitcoin. Operating from the domain PaxForex.com, the Forex platform operated from a shell company in St. Vincent and the Grenadines...
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September 29, 2020 DomainGang
Domain Crime, paxforex, PaxForex.com, Seized domains