Free Dominion has sold it’s rights to a Panama company.
The seven year old website, which was hosted in the US is now under ownership of an offshore company.
Conn Esq Web Design was originally intended to be a corporation offering internet design and programming services, holding Free Dominion as an example of its production. But in the past year the corporation has begun to see ownership of Free Dominion as too much of a potential liability because the website has become a target for individuals and government organizations determined to attack freedom of speech, using a variety of methods at their disposal. Considering the political climate in Canada today, Conn Esq Web Design Ltd. has made the corporate decision to sell Free Dominion to Liberty News Service Inc. of Panama City, Panama.
Liberty News Service’s corporate mission is to buy websites from individuals and corporations living in countries where free speech is under attack, and protect those websites from being shut down or seized by oppressive governments. LNS is now the legal owner of the Free Dominion database and software, all logs and information about FD members, and the domains freedominion.com, freedominion.org and freedominion.net. Because it is not permissible to transfer a dot ca domain to a foreign corporation, we will retain freedominion.ca, which will continue to point to freedominion.com.
Within a very short time frame, Connie and I will be stepping down as administrators of Free Dominion to become the site’s Lead Moderators. Moderating status will be temporarily removed from all moderators, ourselves included, until the software has undergone the upgrade Liberty News Service plans to soon implement. This change of status is occuring because it is LNS’ policy that no Canadian may have access to the IP addresses of Free Dominion’s members.
This policy protects the site’s members while inoculating the moderators from legal or political pressure.
.ca domains cannot be transfered.
Free Dominion is facing another Human Rights complaint filed by human rights lawyer Richard Warman. BigCityLib has all the background on the Warman filing.
Update: I messed up. Richard Warman filed a libel suit, not a HRC.

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Warman has actually launched a libel suit against FreeD.