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

[Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro]

Check out the second paragraph of the article in this link:
http://www.dmwmedia.com/news/2011/02/01/us-seizes-domain-spainbased-sports-linking-site-rojadirecta

"*Similar to the dozens of sites seized by the U.S. Dept. of Homeland
Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) unit last November,
Rojadirecta.org now features a notice from ICE that the site was seized for
copyright-related violations*. "

PS. I got this article from googling Rojadirecta, from JFC's email exchange.
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 9:59 PM, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net> wrote:

> Further to below, Verisign admitted that the seizure action was done
> through them (this is about the old case mentioned in my email). quoting
> from below referred item.
>
> So, Adam, changing the registrar in the present case under discussion would
> simply not have helped. So lets focus on the real problem, and a possible
> solution to it.
>
> VeriSign sent this statement:
>
> VeriSign received sealed court orders directing certain actions to be taken
> with respect to specific domain names, and took appropriate actions. Because
> the orders are sealed, further questions should be directed to the U.S.
> Department of Homeland Security.
>
>
>
> parminder wrote:
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> Adam Peake wrote:
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>
> 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
>
>
> Are you sure? Similar seizures earlier were done from the registry operator
> level who runs the generic tld, verisign in that case
>
> see quote from
> http://domainincite.com/icann-had-no-role-in-seizing-torrent-domains/
>
> Ben Butler, Go Daddy’s director of network abuse, has just provided me with
> the following statement, via a spokesperson:
>
> It appears the domain names were locked directly by VeriSign. Go Daddy has
> not received any law enforcement inquiries or court orders concerning the
> suspension of the domains in question.
>
> Go Daddy has not been contacted by ICE or DHS on the domain names in
> question.
>
>
> The point is ICANN, tld operators and many top registrars all are subject
> to US jurisdiction and will HAVE to to what US Laws seeks of them.... So the
> question of an international treaty raised by Stephane. parminder
>
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