[Chapter-delegates] PIR and wikileaks.ORG

[Patrick Vande Walle]

"Jon Zittrain" <zittrain at cyber.law.harvard.edu> wrote:

>If I'm keeping the examples straight, that's where the USG "seized" 
>the domain name, e.g. 
><http://mashable.com/2010/11/26/torrent-finder/>.  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"!
>

Indeed. The place of incorporation of gTLD registries make them vulnerable to these types of requests. In the case of PIR, the ISOC board should ask themselves if moving PIR abroad might not be in the best interest of the Internet community.

Best regards,
Cordialement,

Patrick Vande Walle
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Sent from a mobile device. Apologies for the typos and the brevity.