[registrars] US Registrars - OFAC Updates

["John Berryhill" <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The United States Department of the Treasury, Office of Foreign Asset
Control (OFAC) has made a number of updates to the list of Specially
Designated Nationals (SDN's) with whom engaging in trade or provisions of
services is a federal felony.  The SDN list is separate from the country
sanction programs also administered by OFAC.

Some time ago, OFAC began including specific domain names as SDN's.  The
first of these was kahane.net, but the list has grown much longer to include
entities listed en masse as a single entity such as:

WWW.CUBA-ECOTOURISM.COM (a.k.a. GO CUBA PLUS; a.k.a. T&M
INTERNATIONAL LTD.; a.k.a. TOUR & MARKETING INTERNATIONAL LTD.;
a.k.a. WWW.ABOUTCUBA.COM; a.k.a. WWW.BONJOURCUBA.COM; a.k.a.
WWW.CIAOCUBA.COM; a.k.a. WWW.CIGARSSUPERSTORE.COM; a.k.a.
WWW.CUBAADVICE.COM; a.k.a. WWW.CUBA-BARACOA.COM; a.k.a. WWW.CUBA-
BAYAMO.COM; a.k.a. WWW.CUBA-CAMAGUEY.COM; a.k.a. WWW.CUBA-
CAYOCOCO.COM; a.k.a. WWW.CUBA-CAYOGUILLERMO.COM; a.k.a. WWW.CUBA-
CAYOLARGO.COM; a.k.a. WWW.CUBA-CAYOLEVISA.COM; a.k.a. WWW.CUBA-
CAYOSABINAL.COM; a.k.a. WWW.CUBA-CAYOSAETIA.COM; a.k.a. WWW.CUBA-
CAYOSANTAMARIA.COM; a.k.a. WWW.CUBA-CHE.COM; a.k.a. WWW.CUBA-
CIEGODEAVILA.COM; a.k.a. WWW.CUBA-CIENFUEGOS.COM; a.k.a. WWW.CUBA-
ELGUEA.COM; a.k.a. WWW.CUBAFIRST.COM; a.k.a. WWW.CUBAFUN.COM;
a.k.a. WWW.CUBA-GIRON.COM; a.k.a. WWW.CUBA-GRANMA.COM; a.k.a.
WWW.CUBA-GUAMA.COM; a.k.a. WWW.CUBA-GUARDALAVACA.COM; a.k.a.
WWW.CUBA-HAVANACITY.COM; a.k.a. WWW.CUBA-HEMINGWAY.COM; a.k.a.
WWW.CUBA-HOLGUIN.COM; a.k.a. WWW.CUBA-ISLADELAJUVENTUD.COM; a.k.a.
WWW.CUBA-JARDINESDELEREY.COM; a.k.a. WWW.CUBA-LAHABANA.COM; a.k.a.
WWW.CUBA-LASTUNAS.COM; a.k.a. WWW.CUBA-MATANZAS.COM; a.k.a.
WWW.CUBANBASEBALLTRAVEL.COM; a.k.a. WWW.CUBANCULTURE.COM; a.k.a.
WWW.CUBA-OLDHAVANA.COM; a.k.a. WWW.CUBAONE.COM; a.k.a. WWW.CUBA-
PINARDELRIO.COM; a.k.a. WWW.CUBA-SANCTISPIRITUS.COM; a.k.a.
WWW.CUBA-SANTALUCIA.COM; a.k.a. WWW.CUBA-SANTIAGODECUBA.COM; a.k.a.
WWW.CUBA-SHOPPING.COM; a.k.a. WWW.CUBA-SOROA.COM; a.k.a.
WWW.CUBASPORTS.COM; a.k.a. WWW.CUBA-TOPESDECOLLANTES.COM; a.k.a.
WWW.CUBATRAVELDIRECTORY.COM; a.k.a. WWW.CUBA-TRINIDAD.COM; a.k.a.
WWW.CUBA-VARADEROBEACH.COM; a.k.a. WWW.CUBA-VILLACLARA.COM; a.k.a.
WWW.CUBAVIP.COM; a.k.a. WWW.CUBA-WEATHER.COM; a.k.a.
WWW.GOCUBA.COM; a.k.a. WWW.GOCUBA.CU; a.k.a. WWW.GOCUBAPLUS.COM;
a.k.a. WWW.IPIXCUBA.COM; a.k.a. WWW.NO.GOCUBAPLUS.COM; a.k.a.
WWW.REALESTATECUBA.COM; a.k.a. WWW.TOURANDMARKETING.COM; a.k.a.
WWW.VAMOSACUBA.COM), Ellen L. Skelton Building, 4th Floor, Fishers
Estate, P.O. Box 3820, Road Town, Tortola, Virgin Islands, British;
P.O. Box 24258, London, England SE9 1WS, United Kingdom; Hotel
Acuario, Suite 3511, Marina Hemingway, Santa Fe, Playa, Havana,
Cuba; Hotel Acuario, Suite 3541, Marina Hemingway, Santa Fe, Playa,
Havana, Cuba; Hotel Acuario, Suite 3542, Marina Hemingway, Santa
Fe, Playa, Havana, Cuba; Hotel Viejo y el Mar, Suite 6005, Marina
Hemingway, Playa, Havana, Cuba; Calle 12 y Mar, Varadero Matanzas,
Cuba; Calle Ramon Pino, No. 4, 38650, Los Cristianos, Arona,
Tenerife, Spain [CUBA]

The full list of SDN's is located here:

http://www.treas.gov/offices/enforcement/ofac/sdn/sdnlist.txt



John Berryhill, Ph.d., Esq.
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Media, PA  19063
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