http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/5334/135/ So ICANN goes through all these motions to regulate trademarks, objectionable strings, etc. -- and then the US just goes ahead and says "doesn't matter, we will creatre our own domain takedown procedure". This move affects every US-based domain, every US-based registrar and registry, every US-base root server, and every foreign domain wanting to be accessible from the US. At one level, this should probably be a message to ICANN to get back to its roots as a technical co-ordination body, because all of its policies about content and rights -- no matter how developed -- are about to get overruled anyway. Or maybe ICANN will decide to devolve to its core competency -- serving as an industry association for registrars and registries. - Evan