By: Andres

Andres — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:04:41 +0000

Excellent points, and I agree completely. It will cripple some sites, but it will not remove them from the Internet.

By: AJ

AJ — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:11:14 +0000

So ICANN can’t seize http://www.piratebay.se then? Operation “oops bit of an oversite”?

By: Peter of H

Peter of H — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 09:03:03 +0000

I’m wondering if this is effective as long as corresponding IP addresses are not seized. As this seizing approach becomes more popular, it’s not tremendously difficult to build any foolproof website or search portal to publish the IPs of the seizure-likely web hosts, without using DNS at all. And these referral sites or services would not in any way be in violation of any law, including DRM.
But I don’t think the ICANN could do the same for ccTLDs (e.g. .hu, .uk etc.) The ICANN does refer to breach of contract by the registrars for enabling registrations without proper names, but ccTLD managers (ccTLD registries) are not registrars, and to me it seems that ICANN could only either wholly terminate the agreement with the ccTLD manager or do nothing. Technically, I’m sure ICANN could somehow overwrite replies to ccTLD resolution queries as long as those queries come from parties outside the ccTLD manager’s scope. But this would be in violation of agreements for e.g. the registry of EU TLD. (.TV and other ccTLD registries managed by US companies are quite a different treat as we have already seen.)
We shall see…

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