Domain Name Seizures Grow in ICE Fight Against Counterfeit Goods
An annual effort to stop websites from illegally selling counterfeit products continues to grow, said ICE (here). Along with law enforcement agencies across 27 countries, ICE's Homeland Security Investigations shut down 37,479 websites that sold counterfeit merchandise online, up from…
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the 29,684 seized domain names last year, the agency said. The National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center, a U.S. interagency collaboration led by HSI, joined with Europol and Interpol for the operation, called In-Our-Sites VI. "Over the past year, and leading up to Cyber Monday, the IPR Center and its partners used both criminal and civil actions to successfully seize domain names.," said ICE. This was the sixth year the anti-counterfeiting website operation.