So was it ICANN that actually did the seizing? On 11/26/2010 7:25 PM, Michael Haffely wrote: > The concerning part about the report from today is that the domain > owner never received any complaint or due process before the domains > were seized. It appears that no Cease and Desist, warrant, suit, or > other criminal complaint was brought up before the domain was taken. > What if (for an example) this behavior is taken up by the Patent and > Copyright "trolls". What happens to an > individual/nonprofit/organization when they have their domain yanked > out from under them? > > If ICANN is to seize domains from their rightful owners by demand of a > law enforcement agency we need to have a clear, *rapid* appeals > process to prevent abuse by corporations, law enforcement agencies, > and governments. > > > -Mike H. > > > > On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 8:46 PM, Andrew A. Adams <[log in to unmask] > <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote: > > Very similar moves are happening in the UK, with Nominet (UK > non-profit with > the .uk (and .gb) country-code delegation) engaging with the UK's SOCA > (Serious and Organised Crime Agency *) to remove 1200 "sites > engaged in > selling counterfeit goods" recently and now doing a more explicit > deal with > the police to take down the DNS registration for sites "alleged to be > involved in criminal activity". > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/25/nominet_crime/ > > (*) The SOCA is a rather dodgy organisation, IMHO. When it was set > up the > then home secrewtary made a big thing of it not being actually > police and > therefore not bound by the requirements that the police have to > respect the > human rights of citizens. THat's a recipe for a secret police > operating > extra-judicially and here we see exactly that kind of approach. > > I am very worried by these kinds of moves. Zittrain's "The Future > of the > Internet" and Mueller's "Networks and States" concerns about > censorship > becoming the norm not the exception online seem to be coming true. > While I'm > not in favour of criminals having free reign, the trouble is that > all the > hard won freedoms such as due process, balance of rights, etc. > seem to be > being thrown out in the digital domain. > > > > -- > Professor Andrew A Adams [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> > Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and > Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics > Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan http://www.a-cubed.info/ > >