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domain name
identification string that defines a realm of administrative autonomy, authority or control within the Internet
Megaupload
Megaupload Ltd was a Hong Kong–based online company established in 2005 that operated from 2005 to 2012 providing online services related to file storage and viewing.
Verisign
Verisign, Inc. is an American company based in Reston, Virginia, that operates a diverse array of network infrastructure, including two of the Internet's thirteen root nameservers, the authoritative registry for the , , and generic top-level domains and the country-code top-level domains, and the back-end systems for the and sponsored top-level domains.
Kim Dotcom
German-Finnish Internet entrepreneur
Press TV
Iranian state-owned English-language channel
Z-Library
Z-Library (abbreviated as z-lib, formerly BookFinder) is a shadow library project for file-sharing access to scholarly journal articles, academic texts and general-interest books. It began as a mirror of Library Genesis but has expanded dramatically.
KickassTorrents
KickassTorrents (commonly abbreviated KAT) was a website that provided a directory for torrent files and magnet links to facilitate peer-to-peer file sharing using the BitTorrent protocol. It was founded in 2008 and by November 2014, KAT became the most visited BitTorrent directory in the world, overtaking The Pirate Bay, according to the site's Alexa ranking. KAT went offline on 20 July 2016 when the domain was seized by the U.S. government. The site's proxy servers were shut down by its staff at the same time.
PokerStars
thumb|250px|Screenshot of the Pokerstars graphic user interface|GUI (the "classic" theme) at a real money table
Liberty Reserve
digital currency and money transfer service
Al-Alam News Network
Arabic news channel broadcasting from Iran
BTC-e
BTC-e was a cryptocurrency exchange primarily serving the Russian market, with servers located in the United States. The U.S. government seized their website and funds in 2017. It was founded in July 2011 by Alexander Vinnik and Aleksandr Bilyuchenko, and as of February 2015 handled around 3% of all Bitcoin exchange volume. The platform was eventually taken over by Russian Orthodox oligarch Konstantin Malofeev, and funds from BTC-e were used for the war in Donbas, under the control of the FSB.
DeepDotWeb
thumb|Lock screen when opening the page|alt=Refer to caption thumb|An infographic of how DeepDotWeb conducted its affiliate marketing operation by referring users to darknet marketplaces according to the United States Department of Justice|alt=Refer to caption
BreachForums
BreachForums, sometimes referred to as Breached, is an English-language black hat–hacking crime forum. The website acted as an alternative and successor to RaidForums following its shutdown and seizure in 2022. Like its predecessor, BreachForums allowed for the discussion of various hacking topics and distributed data breaches, pornography, hacking tools, and various other services.
Al-Kawthar TV
Iranian arabic-language TV channel
Almasirah
Al-Masirah ( al-Masirah, which means "The Journey") is a Yemeni TV channel owned by the Houthi movement which was launched in 2012. It is headquartered in Beirut, Lebanon.