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

[Jan Flodin]

According to the referred web page GoDaddy has not "touched anything",
so it seems the court order hit the registry, be it PIR, or Afilias,
that PIR has contracted to manage the registry, as I understand it.

Would be good to get info from PIR. After all it is us, ISOC.

Jan

On 2011-02-02 07.36, Joly MacFie wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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
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>     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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