Oops! U.S. Government Accidentally Takes Down 84,000 Websites

This week, the U.S. government has taken down some domain names. The Department of Justice and the U.S. Immigration and Customers Enforcement seized several domain names related to counterfeit goods and child pornography. However one of the domain names was on a free DNS provider so 84,000 other websites were wrongly accused of the aforementioned crimes. Thousands of website owners were surprised with the above banner. The domain names and subdomains were restored on Sunday, but it took about 3 days before the image disappeared completely. [TorrentFreak]

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