I understand how IP Addresses work. My question is what legal authority do private companies have to do this?
“What legal authority do private companies have to” seize some domain?
I have the same question.
Especially Microsoft and Unknown-Company-B, and Unknown-Company-C, and . . . Unknown-Company-Z. None of which company names seem to be available, but the liberals are so urgent that Russia must be the hacker.
Despite the hacker being the definite unknown at this time.
“I understand how IP Addresses work. My question is what legal authority do private companies have to do this?”
Private ompanies sinkhole their domain all the time. I am sure the involved were more than have to sink their domain to Microsoft to clean up and hopefully catch the bad actors.
My question is what legal authority do private companies have to do this?
The forces may have bullied their way into putting the site into a sinkhole, because they could. The power created the authority.
My question is what recourse does the hacker have? Answer: zero