Nov. 26, 2011
10:41 p.m.
The jurisdictional issue is fascinating, but it's also worth asking why RIPE had to be ordered to work with ISC and the multinational law enforcement effort aimed at shutting this down.
Nothing mysterious there -- some of the crooks' DNS servers were located in RIPE allocated space in the Ukraine. If you're asking why they were ordered rather than requested, I think you'll find that RIPE is (not unreasonably) reluctant to mess with allocations absent a legal requirement to do so. R's, John