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If I'm keeping the examples straight, that's where the USG
"seized" the domain name, e.g.
<<a href="http://mashable.com/2010/11/26/torrent-finder/" eudora="autourl">
http://mashable.com/2010/11/26/torrent-finder/</a>>. I think
GoDaddy the registrar has denied any involvement, which makes the
Verisign registry the only other party (aside from torrent-finder itself)
able to point the DNS servers to "seizedservers.com"!<br><br>
<pre> Domain Name: TORRENT-FINDER.COM
Registrar: GODADDY.COM, INC.
Whois Server: whois.godaddy.com
Referral URL:
<a href="http://registrar.godaddy.com/" eudora="autourl">
http://registrar.godaddy.com
</a> Name Server: NS1.SEIZEDSERVERS.COM
Name Server: NS2.SEIZEDSERVERS.COM
</pre>Hard to believe ICANN had anything to do with it.<br><br>
So that's a very different example from wikileaks.org -- one that does
represent power over a bottleneck, here the registry.<br><br>
At GMT-4 02:45 PM 12/4/2010, Marcin Cieslak wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">On Sat, 4 Dec 2010, Jon Zittrain
wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Thanks, Peter, Marcin and
Desiree -- from the sound of it, then, this has absolutely nothing to do
with ICANN, PIR, Afilias, or Dynadot. Wikileaks elected to use a
nameserver that isn't working (at least for them) anymore; they can
choose a new one whenever they want. It has nothing to do with the
bottlenecks found within the canonical DNS system. Indeed, the DNS
system is designed to let them fix problems like this as it comes up, and
I gather there's no reason for EveryDNS to have a contract with anyone in
the ICANN hierarchy and below. It's just pointed to the way that a
site at an IP address is pointed to by a domain name. If a Web
server at
<a href="http://www.site.org/" eudora="autourl">www.site.org</a> goes
down, and thus we type
<a href="http://www.site.org/" eudora="autourl">www.site.org</a> and get
nothing back, we don't blame ICANN and friends for the problem -- they
have nothing to do with it. ...JZ</blockquote><br>
I have a question about the "torrent-finder.com" - do you think
this one qualifies<br>
as the "bottleneck withing the DNS system"?<br><br>
(Not saying that ICANN was involved in any way here)<br><br>
//Marcin</blockquote></body>
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