European and US law enforcement agencies have taken action against domain names involved in the selling of counterfeit goods, seizing 133 domains, arresting one person in the US and seizing $175,000.

The 133 domain names seized are part of Project Cyber Monday, an iteration of Operation In Our Sites, which is coordinated by the US
law enforcement bodies.

The latest operation targeted websites that duped consumers into unknowingly buying counterfeit goods as part of the holiday shopping
season. The operation was coordinated by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations
(HSI)-led National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center (IPR Center) in Washington, D.C. for the US and the European Police
Office (Europol) in Europe.

In addition to seizing domain names with a top-level domain (TLD) controlled by US registries, the IPR Center partnered with Europol to
execute coordinated seizures of mostly European-based TLDs such as .be,.eu,.dk,.fr,.ro,and.uk.This effort is titled Project Transatlantic.

During this operation, federal US law enforcement officers made undercover purchases of a host of products including professional sports
jerseys, DVD sets, cologne, and a variety of clothing, jewellery and luxury goods from online retailers who were suspected of selling counterfeit products. If the copyright holders confirmed that the purchased products were counterfeit or otherwise illegal, seizure orders for the
domain names of the websites that sold the goods were obtained from federal magistrate judges.