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In a welcome pre-Christmas boost for legitimate online retailers, the playing field was levelled slightly this week as Nominet, the ultimate controller of all ‘dot uk’ web addresses, closed down 1,219 .co.uk domains that have been tempting consumers with false designer goods at bargain prices. Many of the sites involved, mostly operated from the far East but with a .co.uk domain, supplied counterfeit goods or in some cases simply failed to even supply anything to those who placed orders and taking the money of the customers.

The mass take-down is a result of the Police Central e-Crime Unit’s Operation Papworth, which targeted websites run by organised criminal networks which purported to sell counterfeit designer items — including Ugg Australia boots, ghd hair straighteners and jewellery from Tiffany & Co and Links of London. Shoppers were duped into making what appeared to be bargain purchases, but received either nothing at all or counterfeit products.