I'm not sure if this is sufficient. It seems that most of the seized domains have been registered with US-based registrars, but some of them have been registered with foreign registrars.
So either those foreign registrars complied to US government requests although they did not need to, or the US is blocking those domains directly at the registry level, independent of the registrar used to register them.
If the second option is the case I wonder why they have only targeted relatively small sites so far, instead of larger sites such as Piratebay and Demonoid.
So either those foreign registrars complied to US government requests although they did not need to, or the US is blocking those domains directly at the registry level, independent of the registrar used to register them.
If the second option is the case I wonder why they have only targeted relatively small sites so far, instead of larger sites such as Piratebay and Demonoid.