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Comment by nbpoole | Hacker News Reader

For those that are skeptical, check the nameservers:

http://network-tools.com/default.asp?prog=dnsrec&host=po...

http://network-tools.com/default.asp?prog=dnsrec&host=fu...

http://network-tools.com/default.asp?prog=dnsrec&host=ub...

All of the domains point to nameservers at cirfu.net, which appears to be the FBI's Cyber Initiative and Resource Fusion Unit (http://itlaw.wikia.com/wiki/Cyber_Initiative_and_Resource_Fu...)

What's more interesting (to me): the domains don't appear to have been using US domain registrars.

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Neustar, Verisign, and Afilias operate the actual registry for most of the commercial TLDs (.com, .net, .me, .info, etc), and are all within US jurisdiction. Further, they all hold hefty government contracts.

.me is operated by "doMEn, d.o.o., a Montenegrin joint venture (doing business as .ME Registry), whose partners include Afilias Limited, GoDaddy.com, Inc., and ME-net d.o.o." (http://www.domain.me/about.html), so it seems like it's not under the US jurisdiction.

However the backend is run by Afilias who are subject to US jurisdiction, even though they have their group parent company incorporated in the Republic of Ireland (for tax purposes).

Thanks for information.

The top level domain registrar for .com is in the US, so the US has jurisdiction over it regardless of which retail registrars you use.

what's even more instesting, is that cirfu.net also has this notice up, which is very very strange. Surely they wouldn't take their own site down for gambling offences

and that the ip cirfu.net is currently on is owned by amazon. (from my angle)

    What's more terrifying