«Extremist» media to lose Belarusian domain names

The Belaru­sian Asso­ci­a­tion of Jour­nal­ists was informed of the recent ini­tia­tive of the Pres­i­den­tial Oper­a­tional Ana­lyt­i­cal Cen­ter to can­cel the domain name reg­is­tra­tion of a pop­u­lar pub­li­ca­tion, alleged­ly due to «fail­ure to ver­i­fy» the per­son­al details of its own­ers. The host­ing com­pa­ny, at the request of the OAC, asked the web­site own­er to con­firm their per­son­al infor­ma­tion by show­ing up at the com­pa­ny’s office.

BAJ points out that the require­ment to sub­mit infor­ma­tion in per­son is not stip­u­lat­ed by legal reg­u­la­tions. Despite this and oth­er pro­ce­dur­al vio­la­tions, the OAC decid­ed to can­cel the resource’s domain name reg­is­tra­tion record on the basis of the let­ter and inter­nal instruc­tions. The agency did not even go to court to do this.

The man­age­ment of the news­room tried to chal­lenge the legal­i­ty of this step but was unsuc­cess­ful in get­ting it can­celed.

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