Hi all. Well, here we had a similar issue, degenerated into a show of ignorance. Shortly: - a web site published the resume of a - fake - phone call between Mr. Silvio Berlusconi and Mr. Fedele Confalonieri, Mediaset TV President. - Italian police decided to take over the web site.... - An Italian police officer (?), since the ISP was "Aruba" (a very well known hosting web farm) tought that he had to extradict to Aruba's Antilles island.... - ADNKronos News Agency reported the news that a web site in the Carribean was going to be took over (!) http://www.lastknight.com/2008/07/07/laprivatarepubblica/ I do not know what's "better", a competent police officer that decides to take over domains from foreign countries, rather than an ignorant police officer even unable to correctly perform an "whois" :( Cheers, Raoul -- Raoul Chiesa (OPST, OPSA) Membro del Comitato Direttivo - Steering Board Member CLUSIT - Associazione Italiana per la Sicurezza Informatica CLUSIT - Italian Computer Security Association Università degli Studi di Milano - University of Milan Dipartimento di Informatica e Comunicazione - IT Department rchiesa@clusit.it - www.clusit.it Yassin Mshana ha scritto:
Amusing stuff!
Domains and their locations..... how can one tell the location of a domain name I wonder.
Where are the borders? Is it a taxation issue?
Need to be enlightened in this.....> Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 14:21:20 +0000> From: johnl@iecc.com> To: at-large@atlarge-lists.icann.org> Subject: Re: [At-Large] Local police takes over domains from foreign countries> > > My question is: Does the ICANN allow registrars to change the holder instead> > of setting the domain on "hold" in such a situation?> > Nobody really knows.> > There is a similar case in Kentucky in the US in which the state claims > that a long list of gambling domains are operating illegally in Kentucky, > and wants to take over all those domains. But none of them have any > operations in Kentucky, and most of them have no operations anywhere in > the U.S. The state is clearly completely wrong, but the judge is > proceeding cautiously, since it is rare for a state to file such a > completely meritless suit.> > Regards,> John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",> Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, ex-Mayor> "More Wiener schni tzel, please", said Tom, revealingly.> > _______________________________________________> At-Large mailing list> At-Large@atlarge-lists.icann.org> http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/at-large_atlarge-lists.icann...> > At-Large Official Site: http://atlarge.icann.org _________________________________________________________________ News, entertainment and everything you care about at Live.com. Get it now! http://www.live.com/getstarted.aspx _______________________________________________ At-Large mailing list At-Large@atlarge-lists.icann.org http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/at-large_atlarge-lists.icann...
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