FC: Internic deletes vote-auction.com from domain database?

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 15:45:39 +0100 (MET)
From: Iliya Nickelt-Czycykowski <iczycykowski () aip de>
To: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
Subject: vote-auction.com deleted from DNS

Dear Declan,

        the conflict with vote-auction.com has reached a new level.
Internic deleted its DNS entry on November 1st, after the domain was
registered and hosted by an European registry service and was out of reach
for US law. You can still reach it at http://62.116.31.68/, and you can
read their press release there. A number of other domains
(www.voteauction.at, www.voteauction.de, www.voteauction.cu,
www.voteauction.ru, www.vote-auction.net, www.vote-auction.org) should be
up soon.  No matter what you think about it, wether you see it as an
political satire or take it seriously (the makers don't), it is
interesting to see that .com is obviously ruled by US law. Maybe .eu is a
better idea than I originally thought.

Regards,

        Iliya Nickelt

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