[governance] 'US seizes domain name of Spanish company

[Adam Peake]

FWIW, early in WSIS Cuba tried to get this para into the Geneva declaration:

56. Access to information and communication 
technologies shall be secured in accordance with 
international law, bearing in mind that some 
countries are affected by unilateral measures 
which are not compatible with it and which create 
obstacles for international trade. (US and Canada 
objected.)


Adam



>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? ... 
>OFAC¹s black list shows 557 ³accursed² 
>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......
>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: Suresh Ramasubramanian [mailto:suresh at hserus.net]
>>>Sent: 12 March 2008 08:45
>>>To: governance at lists.cpsr.org; Ian Peter
>>>Subject: Re: [governance] 'US seizes domain name of Spanish company
>>>sellingCuba trips'
>>>
>>>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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