Is this new, or just more of what ICE has been doing before. I don't remember if Verisign's been used in this way before. Clip from the blog post (link below) "We all know that with some US-based Registrars (*cough* Godaddy *cough*), all it takes is a badge out of a box of crackerjacks and you have the authority to fax in a takedown request which has a good shot at being honoured. We also know that some non-US registrars, it takes a lot more "due process-iness" to get a domain taken down. But now, none of that matters, because in this case the State of Maryland simply issued a warrant to .com operator Verisign, (who is headquartered in California) who then duly updated the rootzone for .com with two new NS records for bodog.com which now redirect the domain to the takedown page." Adam ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: michael gurstein <[log in to unmask]> Date: Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 9:47 PM Subject: [governance] Verisign seizes .com domain registered via foreign Registrar on behalf of US Authorities To: [log in to unmask] http://blog2.easydns.org/2012/02/29/verisign-seizes-com-domain-registered-vi a-foreign-registrar-on-behalf-of-us-authorities/ ____________________________________________________________ You received this message as a subscriber on the list: [log in to unmask] To be removed from the list, visit: http://www.igcaucus.org/unsubscribing For all other list information and functions, see: http://lists.igcaucus.org/info/governance To edit your profile and to find the IGC's charter, see: http://www.igcaucus.org/ Translate this email: http://translate.google.com/translate_t