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# IWF

Internet Watch Foundation

A British charity that finds and helps remove child sexual abuse material online. It runs a hotline, keeps lists of confirmed web addresses and alerts registries and registrars when domains in their TLDs are involved. Several registries work with it as a trusted notifier.

## related terms

- [CSAM](https://tldlog.com/glossary/csam/)
- [website content abuse](https://tldlog.com/glossary/content-abuse/)
- [PIR](https://tldlog.com/glossary/pir/)
- [takedown](https://tldlog.com/glossary/takedown/)