Domain shut downs by Registrar?
Alan Hodgson
ahodgson at simkin.ca
Fri Dec 3 18:50:21 UTC 2010
On December 3, 2010, David Conrad <drc at virtualized.org> wrote:
> When folks with guns and little sense of humor show up at your door with
> a sealed court ordered warrant relating to resources you have direct
> authority over, would you tell them to talk to a retailer for that
> resource? Oh, and don't forget VeriSign has a contract (cooperative
> agreement? whatever) involving the USG for the administration of
> COM/NET.
>
It doesn't take guns. Verisign will steal domains from any registrar if they
receive a US court order. I've seem them do it based on a Nevada default
judgement where the client didn't even know there was a legal action under
way.
If you want to keep your domains, don't use .com or .net.
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