[governance] 'US seizes domain name of Spanish company sellingCuba

Carlos Afonso ca at rits.org.br
Wed Mar 12 09:43:28 EDT 2008


There is a lot more. It seems the list of blacklisted domains related to 
Cuba (or the Cuba theme) is quite extensive. The OFAC list can be seen at:

http://www.ustreas.gov/offices/enforcement/ofac/sdn/sdnlist.txt

Rosa Miriam, a Cuban writer, has made an analysis of the list: "How many 
.com domain names linked with Cuba are included in the black list of the 
American Treasury Department? ... OFAC’s black list shows 557 “accursed” 
enterprises in the entire world and 3,719 .com domains that have been 
blocked in the Network without any previous notification to its owners. 
To give an idea of what all this means, it is enough to see the most 
recent report on match-domains (www.latinoamericann.org). Cuba is said 
to have 1,434 websites with .cu domains. That is, the United States has 
blocked almost three times more sites than all those the country has 
registered under the generic of our country."

Miriam's full article can be read at:

http://www.cubanow.net/global/loader.php?&secc=12&item=4419&c=2

frt rgds

--c.a.

Ian Peter wrote:
> Sorry for posting again - still catching up on unread email......
> 
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>> -----Original Message-----
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>> Subject: Re: [governance] 'US seizes domain name of Spanish company
>> sellingCuba trips'
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>> Ian Peter [12/03/08 08:30 +1100]:
>>> Can Anyone shed any light on this??
>>>
>> I thought this was discussed quite extensively a few days back - thread
>> started by Riaz Tayob forwarding on an article. Some more insightful
>> discussion on the principle of sovereignityetc after the first one or two
>> emails criticizing Tayob.
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