[133035] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Domain shut downs by Registrar?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Conrad)
Fri Dec 3 13:13:21 2010
From: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinKMW0DZ75ew_ifMooNVaDOeRBnQnjhdKiWUyJE@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2010 08:10:31 -1000
To: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
Cc: "John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>, nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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.
> 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).
> 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?"
Regards,
-drc
