[governance] A Wave of the Watch List, and Speech Disappears
McTim
dogwallah at gmail.com
Fri Mar 7 03:39:40 EST 2008
Milty,
On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 2:06 AM, Milton L Mueller <mueller at syr.edu> wrote:
> No offense, but I would advise you all not to rely on McTim for legal
> advice.
>
no offense taken, certainly, nor was i offering legal advice.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: McTim [mailto:dogwallah at gmail.com]
> > In this case, the registrar took action, not the registry, so it
> > remains to be seen if a non-US .com registrar (and non-US registrant)
> > would take the same action. Probably not.
>
>
> The action was not taken by the registrar, the registrar complied with a
> legal order.
>
> .com is located in Virginia.
>
> > Then the question (that I
> > think you are raising) is would VRSN remove the records from the .com
> > zone in such a case.
> >
> > I would hope not.
> >
>
> It is not up to VeriSign. It is up to the courts.
>
Was the Enom/Cuba case taken to court? I thought it was a slam-dunk
(the registrant not even informed). Of course, it would be up to the
court system if VRSN went there. In my hypothetical situation
posited, I would hope they would.
--
Cheers,
McTim
$ whois -h whois.afrinic.net mctim
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