Oct. 4, 2009
9:30 p.m.
Why do you think governments have free reign over their ccTLDs?
Hmmn. Can you identify any occasion when ICANN or its predecessors ever refused to make a change a government wanted to make to the management of its TLD? (I don't know if they turned down changes that were technically impossible, e.g., DNS records with syntax errors or delegation to name servers that didn't exist, but we can ignore those if they happened.) Jon Postel set that precedent for Haiti in 1997, and it hasn't changed since. R's, John