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Texas gets porn site domain suspended for violating age verification requirements
Texas has turned a registry into an enforcement arm, and one .com just felt it.
The state didn't chase the site's servers. It went to Verisign, the .com registry operator, and got the domain suspended under its age verification law.
The owner's only path back is posting a $9.14 million bond. That's not a fine; it's a toll gate.
The detail worth sitting with: registry suspension is absolute. No appeals process, no registrar defense — just a court order and a pulled domain.
For anyone holding a domain in a regulated industry, the operating assumption just changed. Governments can flip a switch at the registry layer.
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