That would make more sense that it happened at the registry level -------------------------------------------------- From: "Jean Armour Polly" <mom@netmom.com> Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2010 1:14 PM To: <na-discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org> Subject: Re: [NA-Discuss] Homeland Security seizes Domain Names
Hi, apparently it's snagged at the .com root, see http://nenolod.net/did-icann-really-seize-torrent-finder-com-or-was-it-veris... although I didn't verify these traces myself.
I just think it is surprising that ICANN has no comment yet, because it seems to add fuel to the arguments that the US Government has too much control over the global Internet. I'm not saying I necessarily agree or disagree with the arguments, I'm just saying that we have heard this call for an alternate model or even an alternate DNS for many years and we are likely going to see a resurgence after this event, and I hope ICANN releases a statement.
Besides the NYT article, here are sample articles right now: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Seizure-of-Torrent-Search-Site-s-Domain-Name-...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/jack_mcdowell/us-shuts-down-web-sites-i...
PS Does anyone remember the late Jon Postel's one-man redirect of the root in 1998? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Postel#The_US_takeover_of_the_DNS_Root_Auth... ------ NA-Discuss mailing list NA-Discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org https://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/na-discuss
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