Quote Originally Posted by Lee View Post
So what you are saying, is that without any investigation and without any evidence, you would just arbitrarily terminate an affiliate, you wouldnt even give them a chance to prove to you they werent promoting CP, you wouldnt even ask them for model IDs, you would just go right ahead and report them to ASACP and the FBI?

I just want to make sure we're clear on this, because quite frankly, id take being given a chance at proving a mistake had been made (like DirectNic did) then just shutting an affiliates account down without any warning or chance for them to prove they were doing nothing wrong.

Regards,

Lee
Ofcoarse I would investigate it and make a decision based on my findings that is my job. But in 10 years of doing this I have never had to ask for 2257 documents from a webmaster. Usually it is pretty clean cut if they are hosting a porn site etc. I am fine with contacting the fbi, host etc but what Directnic was wrong and they went over the line they never should have. Why alert the webmaster in anyway? They should of left everything be and contacted the proper authorities and make sure an investigation is done in a timely matter. This way the webmaster is not alerted and probably easier to find and the proper people can do the invesigation like it always has been. So you are saying if Google or some very large company somehow was linking to a cp site somehow the register should go in and lock their domain and shut their entire network down? NO they report it to the authorities to let them handle it and probably remove the link.

As for whois infomation who cares if they change it. You think if someone puts up an illegal site they actually put real whois info? Lets say they do put real whois info and change it who cares all the registers maintain a history or whois infomation on every domain. Plus they have payment information so I think with that information brought to an agency that should be handling this could take care of the site in the proper way.

Maybe Directnic will actually respond to what they did today but there has been no response. I think that is very bad they were at least defending themselves but now they aren't. All I know if they screwed up big time and webmasters will be moving away from them. I know a webmaster transferring over 800 domains away from them because of what they did. I am not condoning cp in anyway but usually this matter in not handled by the register unless they get some sort of court order or a cease and desist.
Some webmasters think what happened is normal but why have we never heard about it until now? Why suddenly is the register taking place of the authorities?

Mark