[AfrICANN-discuss] U.S. Government Seizes BitTorrent Search Engine Domain and More

[Alex Gakuru]

The law is not the bone of contention, rather its Just
implementation-presumption of innocent till proven guilty.

On 11/27/10, McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi again,
>
>
>
> On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 7:52 AM, Alex Gakuru <gakuru at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Don't if you're still on NCUC list? anyway here goes...
>
> I am subscribed by a different email address, one that I don't read anymore.
> ;-)
>
>
>> On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 7:34 AM, Robin Gross <robin at ipjustice.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> The latest info that I've seen is that Verisign assigned new DNS
>
> Yes, if it wasn't GoDaddy, then it must have been VeriSign, as ICANN
> doesn't have write access to that zone file.
>
>
> servers
>>> at the Registry level, and then locked the domain so that even the
>>> Registrar
>>> can't update it.  So now it looks like it may have been VeriSign who
>>> "seized" them.  No word on ICANN's role in this situation, if any.
>
>
> I would suspect none.
>
> This would have happened if ICANN was headquartered in Antarctica,
> Switzerland or wherever.  As long as VeriSign is a US company, then
> they are subject to US Court orders.
>
>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> McTim
> "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A
> route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel
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