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KURDISH INTERNET DOMAINS CLOSED

The US Department of Treasury forced eNom Central, an US Internet domain hosting company, to shut down four Kurdish domains owned by the Kurdish Internet hosting company Roj Online. In an automated e-mail to Roj Online on March 16, 2007, eNom informed the Kurdish company that “due to information provided to [eNom] by the US Department of Treasury OFAC, [the] domain names [had] been placed in a registrar-hold status and disabled” and Roj Online was informed to contact US DoT for further information. The e-mails were sent by a “Christine Graf” of eNom Central. The domains in question are KurdishInfo.com, PKK.org, KongraGel. com and RojOnline.com.

The e-mail from eNom to Roj Online in verbatim:

From : Christine Graf
Sent : Friday, March 16, 2007 7:33 PM

Due to information provide to us by the US Department of Treasury OFAC, your domain names have been placed in a registrar-hold status and disabled. If you require additional information, please contact the US Department of Treasury directly. We are unable to provide you with any additional information at this time.

Regards,

eNom legal department

The same mail was sent to the contact address of all four domains.

Roj Online, a legal Kurdish Internet hosting company, were put under scrutiny by German authorities in 2005, and was announced to be a legal company with no ties to terrorism by a German federal judge.

Quelle: MESOP, 31.05.2007