Re: Domain shut downs by Registrar?

[Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists () gmail com>]

On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 1:10 PM, David Conrad <drc () virtualized org> wrote:
> On Dec 3, 2010, at 5:49 AM, Christopher Morrow wrote:
> > thanks... so, in this case, why did they take this action?
>
> 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.

yup, convenient.

> > why didn't they push the action to the registrar? or did they and the registrar
> > refused to comply? (potentially because the domains weren't violating
> > a TOS?)
>
> The registrar in question (GoDaddy) claims no one came to them and they had no idea what was going on (although that 
> didn't stop them from blaming ICANN).

ha, why does the USG insist on making things difficult? and making the
com/net/icann look like a kangaroo-court?
(or that's my perception at times...)

> > I suppose though, on the good side, we can expect the Verisign folks
> > to now shutdown other domains we bring to their attention as
> > malware/spamware/etc without protest?
>
> "Got Warrant?"

yea... so I wonder if the NCFTA folks would pony up warrants for
things like the content highlighted by www.abuse.ch ?

-chris