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

[Milton L Mueller]

Another way to put this is that as long as 85% of the DNS registry
market is located in the US, the US government and US-based law will
have near-global authority over key aspects of the Internet. 

True, this authority does not come directly from US Commerce Department
oversight of the DNS root (IANA function), although that authority does
provide a backstop for exercising US control if the lower-level
mechanisms (2LDs, TLDs) fail 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Karl Auerbach [mailto:karl at cavebear.com]
 
> 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.
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