> Did the US government use legal measures at the registry or registrar level? Assuming that it was indeed a seizure, Verisign (which in the U.S.) controls the

> Did the US government use legal measures at the registry or registrar level? Assuming that it was indeed a seizure, Verisign (which in the U.S.) controls the .com TLD, so a seizure can technically happen. P.S.: at this time, someone at FBI or U.S. Department of State should talk about this if it is indeed a seizure. The lack of this make it hard to verify what's happening. It is also possible that whatever registrar (data points to an Australian registrar) they're using was hacked and the actual NS servers were re-pointed to AWS (note that Whois data != what's actually stored at Verisign's name servers, which can be inaccurate even in mundane websites).