In mid-2015, The Publishers Association, a UK organization, attempted to enact internet service provider-level blocks on Z-Library.[14][15] In late 2015, publisher Elsevier filed a successful court request that ordered the registrar of bookfi.org to seize the site's internet domain.[16] Bookfi.org, booksc.org and b-ok.org were included in the 2017 Office of the United States Trade Representative report on notorious markets.[17]