[governance] A Wave of the Watch List, and Speech Disappears

[Karl Auerbach]

Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:

> What you had was DoC contacting a US business (a registrar based in the 
> USA)...

The same legal foundation that was used would also work against a 
registry (as opposed to a registrar) located in the US.

Thus even if the registrar is not in the US, if the name is in .com then 
the US could use the same legal approach to apply leverage to the 
registry, Verisign.  And since many of the large registries are in the 
US, that means that much of the DNS is vulnerable to this tactic.

Actions like this do not promote the cohesion of the DNS but, instead, 
create forces tending towards splitting and fragmentation.

		--karl--

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