[Chapter-delegates] .org domain seized by U.S. Department of Justice

[Joly MacFie]

I'd imagine a court order to the registrar. Just how technically a registrar
bypasses a registry is a good question, and raises contractual questions one
would think.

It would be very nice to see a copy of such a court order.

I recently noted comments from Michael Masnick questioning the entire legal
basis of such takedowns, as "Contributory copyright infringement " is a
civil not a criminal matter..
http://www.isoc-ny.org/p2/?p=1670

It is plain, in the manner that such things have been done, that they are
not well thought through. The initial November cases were quite reasonably
speculated to be a hoax they were so inept. It turned out the feds aim was
making a big splash on "Black Monday".  Again, one suspects here, somebody
is trying to please some higher up who has some powerful lobby on his back..

I've cc'd Kathy Kleiman above. perhaps she can cast some light on the .org
situation.

j




On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 1:11 AM, Rodel Urani <rodel.urani at strategict.pro>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> What happened, if the registrar (Go Daddy) did nothing (negating in the
> equation the participation of .ORG operator), the USG DOJ just cut-off the
> domain? Where, in the very root?
>
> -Rodel
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Vittorio Bertola
> Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2011 7:53 AM
> To: chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org
> Subject: Re: [Chapter-delegates] .org domain seized by U.S. Department of
> Justice
>
>
> Il 01/02/11 16:18, Marcin Cieslak ha scritto:
>
>> http://torrentfreak.com/us-resume-file-sharing-domain-seizures-110201/
>>
>
> This is the single best piece of advertising for alternate root server
> systems that I've ever seen. Rojadirecta is one of the most popular web
> services in Italy, even among non-technical people, which are now
> realizing how the global DNS works and concluding that .org names are
> not safe any more. By the way, Rojadirecta is perfectly legal, unless
> the US get to decide what is legal and what is not for the entire Internet.
> I would be curious to hear the position of ISOC on this matter, also
> given that a .org domain name was involved.
> Ciao,
> --
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