UK Police Suspicion of IP Crimes Not Valid Reason to Freeze Domain Names

摘要

A domain name registrar was not justified in denying a requested transfer of three domain names to a new registrar simply because the City of London Police Department asked for the domains to be frozen because of suspected criminal conduct, a Transfer Dispute Resolution Policy (TDRP) panelist at the National Arbitration Forum (NAF) concluded Jan. 6 (easyDNS Techs. Inc. v. PDR Ltd., Nat'l Arb. Forum, No. FA1312001532690, 1/6/14). Among other reasons, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers's policy on the transfer of domain names permits registrars to deny a registrant's request based on a court order blocking such a transfer, panelist Bruce E. Meyerson said.