Fwd: [governance] Verisign seizes .com domain registered via foreign Registrar on behalf of US Authorities

[Maria Farrell]

Hi Milton,

A belated thanks for explaining this. I must admit to having been confused,
myself, and appreciate your explanation that this is a second level domain
issue and not relevant to root zone control.

All the best, Maria

On 11 March 2012 22:57, Nicolas Adam <nickolas.adam at gmail.com> wrote:

>  Hence I was trying to distinguish between the different axis of names.
> One of them, the technical, has them unique and thus rival and excludable.
>
> Another one of them, its meaning, on which its economic value lies, is non
> rival and non excludible, unless one posits that there are finite ways to
> express an idea.
>
> But I don't pretend to be sure that that would be a desirable strategical
> way of putting it.
>
> In any case, thx to you, McTim, Nuno, and JC Morin for the valuable
> primers in DNS.
>
> And I will still think that to have IANA functions attributed by NTIA is
> bad. But, like you imply, more TLDs is somewhat of answer to some classes
> of problems that are brought about by different jurisdictions/regimes.
>
> Nicolas
>
>
> On 3/12/2012 12:12 AM, Milton L Mueller wrote:
>
>  It seems to me that by subjugating global public goods (remember my> proposition re:principles ==> **what** are domain names)
>
>  [Milton L Mueller] remember my proposition that domain names are _not_ public goods. They are rival in consumption and one can exclude. End of story.
>
>
>
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