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Originally Posted by BoyAlley
I agree 100% on this. NO registrar should be requesting 2257 docs from ANYBODY.
I don't remember the Attorney General of the United States designating directNIC as an authority to conduct 2257 inspections on his behalf. If I'm not mistaken, he chose the FBI to conduct that task.
In fact, I'm fairly certain that it wouldn't even be legal for a company like directNIC to be requesting personal information of people depicted on a website, period. Most states have pretty strict laws about sharing that type of data, and website owners can be held accountable for not abiding by any privacy policies that they have in place as well.
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Unless of course you agreed to allow them to do all that.
From Directnic's terms of service:
https://secure.directnic.com/legal/index.php#CP
9 CONTENT OBTAINED WITHOUT RELIABLE CONSENT.
a You agree that if we determine that your use of our Services or System is in any way connected or affiliated with the display, promotion, or dissemination of content obtained without reliable consent from each participant-e.g., sexual or nude images involving children under the age of 18, bestiality, murder, rape-we may charge your account a penalty in the amount of US $1,000.00 for every domain name in violation of this section. You further agree that we may collect these penalties by any means we deem necessary, including but not limited to charging any credit card you have on file with us or auctioning your domains.
b You agree that we reserve the right to immediately discontinue your use of our Services or System and seize control of your account(s) and all domain names within your account(s) immediately and without notice to you upon a determination that you have violated this section. You further agree that if you fail to pay us any penalties assessed under this section, we may auction off any and all of the domain names within your account(s) to satisfy your debt to us.
c
You agree that we may take all necessary steps to investigate, document, and report any findings that you have violated this section, including but not limited to disclosing your account information to any and all appropriate law enforcement agencies.