Domain's owner now registered in the UK
AFP
The registered owner of the domain names Khilafah.is and Khilafa.is, which were used for a website with links to the terrorist organisation Islamic State, has changed his postal address given to ISNIC, the Icelandic company responsible for registering .is domains.
The previous address was in the city of Auckland in New Zealand but the new one is in the town of Milton Keynes in the United Kingdom. More precisely Suite D7559, 68 Tanners Drive, Blakelands, Milton Keynes. The registered owner calls himself Azym Abdullah. His previous address was tracked down to a security box in Auckland but the company providing that service did not recognise his name claiming it was registered to someone else.
The Twitter account @QA_AF linked to the website has now announced that the website will soon return under the domain name Khilafah.link. That domain is also registered to Azym Abdullah but at an address in Wellington the capital city of New Zealand.
The two Icelandic domain names in question were suspended by ISNIC on 12 September on the grounds that their use violated Icelandic laws.
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Two days after the domain names were suspended ISNIC's director Jens Pétur Jensen got a phone call from the Icelandic Ministry of Foreign Affairs informing him that any sort of business related to Islamic State was illegal citing international counter-terrorist laws.
Both the Icelandic government and parliament have began work assessing how the current legal framework in Iceland can be reinforced to make the authorities better prepared should they be faced with similar circumstances in the future.
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