[governance] Re: Why the unilateral US control over generic TLD is dangerous

Adam Peake ajp at glocom.ac.jp
Wed Feb 2 03:30:50 EST 2011


>On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 08:03:09PM +0000,
>  Roland Perry <roland at internetpolicyagency.com> wrote
>  a message of 31 lines which said:
>
>>  Every organisation has to be under the jurisdiction of one court or
>>  another.
>
>It can be under an international treaty, precisely to avoid this danger.
>
>>  The obvious one to choose is where your corporate HQ is,
>
>So, generic TLD are not really international, they are limited to US
>corporations?


No, it is the location of the registrar.  In Rojadirecta's case seems 
it was GoDaddy a U.S. company.  Rojadirecta should have transferred 
their name away from a US company as soon as they had trouble.

Adam




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