March 18, 2008

Iranian Website Incites Murder Using US services

Hmm, We missed one.

Via Internet Haganah: The Iranian "Movement of Students for Pursuing Justice" is offering rewards for the killing of Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak, Mossad director Meir Dagan, and military intelligence chief Amos Yadlin....

...A plain english explanation of US sanctions as relates to hosting websites is this: if a website offers news, information and opinions not commonly available in the Islamic Republic of Iran - e.g. it is a site that is opposed to the Ayatollah's regime) - then, on a case by case basis, the US Treasury may at its discretion allow such a site to receive services from a US company.

Even a cursory look at adlroom.com by a non-Farsi reader will reveal this to be a site that represents the most radical of pro-regime opinions from within the Islamic Republic, and so it seems unlikely that the Treasury would in this case grant an exemption to the sanctions.

A pdf document of the sanctions is here. It includes information or informational materials. (see image below the fold)

DNS provided by OnlineNIC:

Domain Name: ADLROOM.COM
Registrar: ONLINENIC INC.
Whois Server: whois.35.com
Referral URL: http://www.OnlineNIC.com
Online NIC Terms of Service:
5. Illegal Content.
11. Providing/Promoting material that is grossly offensive to Internet Users which includes blatant expressions of bigotry, racism or hatred.
12. Providing/Promoting material about illegal activities or promoting physical injury or harm against any group or individual.
Online NIC contact info here.

hugo@onlinenic.com
ally@onlinenic.com
connie@onlinenic.com
aaron@onlinenice.com

Hosting provided by: adlroom.com = [ 74.124.198.61 ]

Corporate Colocation Inc of Los Angeles California.

abuse@corporatecolo.com

Update: The reseller of Corporate Colocation Inc services in this case is inmotion hosting.

support@inmotionhosting.com
abuse@inmotionhosting.com

We ran this once before but so far the site remains. Go get em Jawas!

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