site hosted abroad - where and how to lodge complaint

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abjater

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This will be for the Admins and Webmasters to chime in.

I have no problem with freedom of expression and speech, nor individuals being creative to earn their living. However....
A site has come to my attention that is really unmoderated, obscene and offensive, does not require registration nor validation and its a WAP site, so every fool, child and lamebrain can access it and behave him/herself like a mad parrot. Unfortunately this site runs off a server hosted in Russia (and has a .ru domain name). Querying it with RIPE, does not reveal any contact details, although the Hosting Providers details are showing. From the content on there, its reasonably sure its a South African citizen behind it.

What methods, processes or ways DO we have in SA to try and do something about that site? Ideally finding the owner/operator would be great, as then we have a specific person to talk to. I have mailed the Hosting Company, but they are not forthcoming with much information.

If we have any domain admins or clued up peeps on here who can assist, I would appreciate some pointers (or a PM).
 
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DarkStreet

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Best you can do is to contact the abuse department of the hosting company. It really depends what on the website is "obscene and offensive" - if it's anything illegal like child pornography there are organisations you can contact (e.g. http://www.iwf.org.uk/). Other than that... not much else you can do but to ignore the website.
 
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Linux_newb

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If it's really offensive (most service providers do not allow porn, but do allow fowl languange etc), do the following:

* Do a WHOIS on the domain (Co.za or International)
* Establish the domain's nameservers (normally ns1. & ns2.)
* Do a tracert to the nameservers - the last few hops normally gives away the data centre/company hosting the site.
* Contact data centre's abuse department

This is what I normally do - hope it helps.
 
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