yeah, wouldn't they just shut down the one or two domains that had questionable images?

not to doubt Slick, he seems very up front, but I can't imagine Mike @ Directnic basically pulling the income out from under someone just like that, seems very unprofessional and risky

Directnic really should allow you access to your account and allow you to take your domains and your business elsewhere.

Shutting you down after all that has been said by them on this issue is....excessive. There is a difference between questionable content and blatant CP. Questionable needs to be handled fairly and equitably, not with a heavy hand until the case is proven.

holy shit this thread is moving fast

Brujah, I have a feeling that directnic is doing exactly what people suggested - take screen shots, report it to the authorities, and shut it down until they get an answer.

...and people were bitching before. :(

All his content is from fhg's this is insanity

You guys telling him to sue.. maybe you should be thinking that DirectNIC has found evidence or believe they have evidence his site was promoting illegal and underage content?

Will it have any impact on the sponsors he was promoting? The ones whose FHGs were being promoted.

correct. That was my point in that other thead! You definitely had to check your trades better and find out that many of them are nothing but proven pure cheatting scumbags!! :mad:

I am so sorry to hear they shut you down though :( They shouldn't have done this that fast :( Damn man, I don't know what to tell you...Go get lawyer and talk with directNIC people about getting back everything to normal...by the time try to contact sponsors of those galleries as well and get full 2257 docs or simply delete those fucking thumbs for the God's shake!!

Hope all will be ok soon....

Good luck!!

yes well I guess that not guilty until proven turns out ugly

I don't know how much DN relies on adult, but I hope for their sake it is minimal as this is the beginning of the end for them I would guess.

Would be nice to have some light on who shut it down ...

He says it isn't the host, so DirectNic or the Authorities did so.

No shit, the last I looked 48 replies, 49 views lol.


Anyhow, it definately is the registrar:

same here...........

Contact your attorney and proceed as they advise. This is a serious disruption to your business and I hope they can help restore it asap.
WG

Correct assessment.

That's extremely fucked up, they went against their word. Not good business ethics IMO. Didn't they even shut it down earlier than their original e-mail stated? Fucking shady right there.

o fuck... and I thought they are trustworthy...

The thing is that my sites are my life, my living. I have a family and bills to take care of. I'm not sure what's gonna happen if I lose most of my traffic.

You have somewhat less than half a story... we have no clue what has said or been done in the last 24 hours.

I agree with most of that. I don't think they should have locked and pulled his domain until he's actually proven guilty, charged with something, or ordered to do so.

I think they should have reported it to the domain owner, the host, and appropriate authorities to deal with. Let them order the registrar to shut it down after investigation by those who are probably better trained and experienced to deal with it.

this thread makes me happy that

1. I don't have my domains with directnic
2. I don't run tgp's so I couldn't care less about the 2257 issues

Slick, I hope your situation gets resolved though

good luck

Guys, come on, give DirectNic a little time to respond here. Catering to 1,000,000 transfer requests in 15 minutes is probably a little time consuming.

At this point you should be on the phone with your attorneys and hoping to stay out of prison. You've more or less been branded a child pornographer now.

I haven't heard anything from them since yesterday, so I'm not sure why they just pulled the plug without warning.

If you see the sponsors listed on my page, you'd see that they are ALL legit sponsors. IF the girls are all 18, it's legal, case closed. It shouldn't be "well, they LOOK younger than 18, it's illegal, shut it down".

Have to agree darksoul - it does not take a doctorate to see certain content is in an area which would interest Federal law enforcement - which was kinda disappointing to see and showed yet another lack of judgement. Webmaster need to take fully responsibility for their website content - not quibble over it.

As far as DN is concerned - don't agree with their interference one bit. They deserve everything which may be flowing their way - and to loose a % of their client base. If they had a complaint - it is not their job to investigate. The complaint should have been passed direct to law enforcement.

For Slick, your judgement is a problem here. You are/were a law enforcement target, but hope that you don't have further problems since you appear to have the message. Good luck on this!

I wouldn't jump to that conclusion so fast. I think there is more to the story then both parties might be saying.

Spammers get there domains locked up and taken down all the time.. If there was any BS on these domains and I am not saying there is - well we shall see.

In this political env. were in - DN might of made the right choice. I am sure we will here the whole complete story soon enough.

As far as mike goes, we have pissed many a time in the old days but I have never known him or his companies to blatanly fuck someone over for no reason.

I suggest we all wait and see what the "whole story" is.

peace

Todd

I am just going off the original letter he received from them stating that he had until 4:00pm on Dec. 18th before they would shut him down.

Doesn't surprise me coming from a host that's been busted for squatting in the past. Who knows wtf else they do. :2 cents:

Same thing down here in florida as well. Me myself have some domains with them thats has nothing but FHG stuff on it as well. Needless to say im the fuck out of there. Maybe posting this on gfy wasnt your best choice from the get go. Maybe they said fuck it and reported it to be spiteful.

Slick did you have any luck with the sponsors in question workin with you on this? Now what happens to the mans domains? how much traffic you had going thru your network slick ? Sorry to bombard you with questions but this issue is gonna be hot right now. Cause if this happened to you this could happen to anyone...

majorpervert.com looks wayyyy CP.

I guess that could be a reaosn. you say it´s all 2257 comp but how will they check all these pics with 1000´s of custodians of record.

And there is a big chance that some of these pics are underage ..

horny teddy is working

Slick, the sad fact is that laws like 2257 are not innocent until proven guilty, but suspect until proven clean. The presumption of innocence isn't always a given, most people don't understand that.

If I was you, I would get to another registrar, register some domains, and get back to business while your lawyer gets to doing what lawyers do.

You are making the assumption that people will be reasonable, and not just jump to conclusions.

Sorry, but issues like this, even if not completely accurate, can cause a lot of damage.

:1orglaugh

Crazy shit, glad its not me.
Hope it all works out for you.

yes, and as an example, you don't now if they also contact authorities who said "shut it down"... or that Slick's lawyer may have made unreasonable demands... or any one of a 101 other things. You don't know, I don't know.

I am disappointed for everyone involved how this is turning out, nobody comes out of this ahead.

Would somebody from Directnic please stand up.

This is fucking BullShit.

I am seeing a few of those sites working again from http://www.slicksnetwork.com/

Slick, buy some other domains and switch your trades over to the new ones
so you don't lose all income till this gets sorted.

I guess if this does get taken care of, I'll have to hire someone to check my trades on a regular basis, does anyone want a job ?? ha ha ha.

True, ppl will jump on the bandwagon, mabey see this thread and do batch transfers all day long, I can see that..

But there is more then meets the eye here..

Sites work fine here.

You think running porn sites which are confusingly similar to child pornography is the ONLY way to make a living in this world?

I have a big news for you:
it's NOT.

Get education, find the job, something millions of Americans do every year.

The only thing is that between those sites, we're talking HUNDREDS of trades, that'd take a while to get those all changed over. I might have to though if this doesn't get cleared up soon.

Err, no i mean the index page works fine here.

true some are up again

i would tend to agree... i would guess that there is clearly more going on that people realize. I doubt DN woke up a couple days ago and decided their new mission was to make history, scare the shit out of people and become the first private internet morality police. taking these steps is pretty serious. people should really wait for full details before making snap judgements.

The "let the Feds deal with it" is an interesting issue for sure. Thats not a simple thing. that means letting someone promote, sell, distribute CP for months or years while its being "dealt with" ... IF it ever gets investigated. I can see strong arguments that might not be a great way to go about it either. I'm sure you remember Lee Noga way back when... and her tirades against sextracker about the very issue of leaving CP sites up for months and months and months while they are "investigated".

So let's see, when the media gets a hold of this, they're going to ruin Slick's life forever because he's now been branded as a CHILD PORN PEDDLER, BY HIS REGISTRAR, not by the authorities. But the damage to his life will be completely destructive.

Beyond all the other damages that this whole situation is going to cause.

I admire you for deciding to reevaluate. CP or even insinuated cp is very serioius biz. People talk very highly of you and respect you. But I've just lately had several tgp guys tell me straight up, that the younger looking, underdeveloped type girls that look 13 DO draw more clicks. It's disturbing. Whether it's legal or not, it might be time to figure out how far one will go for that extra couple sales or those extra coupld hundred or thousand clicks.

Not worth it, obviously, the way things turned out. Good luck though and I hope others are paying close attention.

Ya know, I make more money in one month than I used to make all year at my old job.