I'm keeping all my domains registered with either Tucows (Canada) or Fabulous.co (Australia). I don't know if it helps but I'm not using US registries. On 11/28/2010 8:00 AM, Milton L Mueller wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> ICANN has no operational knobs it can tweak at the 2nd+ level. Verisign >> does. > Precisely. I suspect that claim in the article that ICANN was involved was simply false. > >> I'd really like if some of the numerous reports citing a Court order >> provide more information about it or a link, so far I'm still trying >> to find a concrete reference or the actual order. > But that's the disturbing thing about this case, Jorge. It appears that no court order was ever served on toerrent-finder. > > >> Both the .com (supposedly seized) and the .info (still working) are >> registered by the same person with address in Egypt. > If - as appears to be the case - this action depended on the cooperation of the registry, it may be that VeriSign was more "cooperative" than Afilias.