U.S. Government Seizes BitTorrent Search Engine Domain and More

[Marc Perkel]

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.