The US Government had seized several domain names belonging to Kim dotcom's file hosting service. They had a case against Megaupload domain and it was brought down half a decade ago. However, the FBI authorities have not taken necessary steps to keep it secured and recently it was found that Megaupload.org links to a soft porn portal.
Over the span of 5 years, only little progress has been made legally. The US government controls most of the the company's assets which includes a dozen of other domains such as Megastuff.co, Megaclicks.org, Megaworld.mobi, Megaupload.com, Megaupload.org, and Megavideo.com.
Earlier over the years a banner was displayed conveying that the domain has been seized as part of criminal investigation. However, two days ago, all the domains including megaupload.org, megastuff.co, megaclicks.org and megaworld.mobi was nourished with a site dedicated to soft porn advertisements. It was surprising to find that the administrative and technical contact for all these domains were the internal team of FBI since they had seized it.
What made this happen ?
The FBI used an expired domain named Cirfu.net for their nameservers. After Cirfu.net expired, someone else bought that domain name and linked Megaupload.com to display ads of scams. However, the U.S. government authorities fixed this by taking down bthe nameservers altogether. But, some of the seized domains were left untouched.
Cirfu.net domain got expired once again few weeks ago when it was picked up by an outsider and parked it at Rook Media, to rake in some cash from the FBI-controlled domains.
The WHOIS data clearly indicates that Megaupload.org still uses the old Cirfu.net nameservers, which means that an outsider is now able to control several of the 'hijacked' Megaupload domain names.
No much visitors have been observed on the ‘hijacked’ domains but it is embarrassing to have them linked to ads and soft porn. Kim Dotcom reacts to this incident stating - “Their handling of the Megaupload domain is a reflection of the entire case: Unprofessional,”
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