I agree that it is stupid but sometimes its hard to foresee the ramifications of a small thing that probably was done years ago when the domain was first registered
Also its not far fetched at all that even if the registrar is not US based.......that they end up complying with the court order
I am actually surprised that Network Solutions stood their ground in this situation
This is (After all) a situation that is coming from a state that does not explicitly forbids egaming, a few sites avoid taking players from certain states....in this situation not even that caution helped
Also its not far fetched at all that even if the registrar is not US based.......that they end up complying with the court order
I am actually surprised that Network Solutions stood their ground in this situation
This is (After all) a situation that is coming from a state that does not explicitly forbids egaming, a few sites avoid taking players from certain states....in this situation not even that caution helped
Order of magnitude less likely, that a foreign company will comply with a U.S. court order -- esp. if laws don't mesh up. Otherwise you'd have seen AllOfMP3.com taken down a long time ago, rather than the U.S. forcing the Russians to do it in WTO negotations.
Of course, perhaps someone ought to start an ICANN-certified registrar in Costa Rica.
If they can't get what they want from the registrar, they aren't going to go to ICANN nor the dot-com Root (managed by Verisign) because it's already too political that these are still under U.S. government supervision.
Did they? I'm not surprised, Network Solutions is a Verisign subsidiary, they start complying and pretty soon they're going to get legal requests for any of the 77 million dot-com domains.
That is a good example why this strategy is stupid and flawed (to seize domains) , if you remember at some point in time allofmp3 got taken down (not sure how or why but it did, I don't think it was seizing the domain but something else was done that took the site down )
Sure enough....a new site was born (mp3sparks) and surprise, my account worked there too :lol:
I guess we will know what happens about this next Tuesday
LOL, even Hamas is stupid.
Hamas terrorist training and propoganda video sharing site:
aqsatube.com (GoDaddy, Arizona USA)
http://whois.domaintools.com/aqsatube.com
Although in this case their French hosting company took it down. If they go switch DNS and put it back up, we'll get to see what GoDaddy does.
http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/10/plug-pulled-on.html
Hamas terrorist training and propoganda video sharing site:
aqsatube.com (GoDaddy, Arizona USA)
http://whois.domaintools.com/aqsatube.com
Although in this case their French hosting company took it down. If they go switch DNS and put it back up, we'll get to see what GoDaddy does.
http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/10/plug-pulled-on.html
