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Originally Posted by cordoba
So the UK police or customs or whatever could simply send one legal request to GoDaddy (and all the other registrars) for the whois details of every non-compliant site registered under them?
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Not one for all of them. One for each of them. A lot has to do with international treaties as well. MLAT controls cross border law enforcement subpoena requests between numerous countries. The UK and the US have a signed treaty.
If you want to see who has a treaty with who you can look here -->
https://mlat.info/
I have a Canadian client that I deal with this issue on almost on a daily basis with US based law enforcement. I make local law enforcement jump through the MLAT hoops in regards to subpoenas.
I used to be able to make the US FBI and US DOJ jump through the same MLAT hoops however, they have smartened up. Now they just contact the Canadian Royal Mounted Police so they provide the subpoena to my client and then they provide whatever information they get directly to the FBI/DOJ. No hoop jumping since the Mounties have jurisdiction.
So the UK's Ministry of Justice could do the same with the US Department of Justice and just have them submit the subpoena's to Godaddy or any of the other US based registrars and get the information rather easily.