In Q2 2025, anti-piracy coalition Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment continued to ‘seize’ domains in bulk, adding to the world’s largest collection of former pirate domains maintained by the MPA. While the archive contains countless unique and memorable domains, many with interesting and informative backstories, new additions illustrate typical responses to site blocking measures and very little else.
With all these domains they are continuing to seize and then need to continue to renew, at what point does a bean counter tell them it’s unsustainable? I also wonder how many sites just don’t get renewed because they slipped through the cracks like certs sometimes do. I guess if you’re a domain register this seems like a crazy inflated sales bubble that at some point is going to pop, and hopefully they have saved some of that revenue to ride out that lull.
Edit - a word
