Ars Technica reports that shadow library Anna’s Archive lost its.org domain in early January after Spotify, Sony, Warner, and Universal Music Group sued the site in late December in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. The case was initially sealed, then unsealed on January 16 after a judge said the purpose of sealing had been fulfilled, making documents public that clarified the cause of the suspension. On January 2, the music companies requested a temporary restraining order, which the court granted the same day. The order imposed requirements on the Public Interest Registry (which oversees.org domains) and Cloudflare, with the plaintiffs arguing these entities could shut off access to domains used to distribute copyrighted works. The companies also asked that Anna’s Archive be notified by email only after the order was issued and implemented, to prevent the site from releasing “millions” of allegedly illegally obtained copyrighted sound recordings. After the suspension, Anna’s Archive’s operator had said the suspension did not appear related to its Spotify scraping and suggested such suspensions happen regularly to shadow libraries.