DCA Digital Digest: Nominet suspends 16,000 .UK domains for criminal activity after alerts from Police
November 17, 2017
Nominet has published its update on .UK domains suspended for criminal activity over the 12 months to October 2017.This comes following notification from the police or other law enforcement agencies that the domain is being used for criminal activity.
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