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

[Bertrand de La Chapelle]

Right, but this does not apply only to registrars. And registries based in
the US bring the same question.

B.

On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 4:45 PM, Bret Fausett <bfausett at internet.law.pro>
wrote:

> On Mar 6, 2008, at 3:01 PM, Milton L Mueller wrote:
> > 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.
>
> If 85% of the market is in U.S.-based business, perhaps the best
> lesson here is that registrants should move their domain names out of
> the U.S. unless they want to be subject to U.S. laws. I don't think
> most registrants understand the consequences of selecting a services
> provider -- be it a registrar or a hosting company -- based outside
> their own country.
>
> Isn't this an opportunity to teach? Maybe we should do something on
> this inside IGF. I would think the governments of the world would
> welcome the opportunity to teach users about the benefits of locally
> owned businesses.
>
>        -- Bret
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