[133046] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Domain shut downs by Registrar?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Hodgson)
Fri Dec 3 13:50:35 2010
From: Alan Hodgson <ahodgson@simkin.ca>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2010 10:50:21 -0800
In-Reply-To: <1180AA2A-3D91-4B58-9D15-54D37F55DC92@virtualized.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On December 3, 2010, David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org> wrote:
> 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.
>
It doesn't take guns. Verisign will steal domains from any registrar if they
receive a US court order. I've seem them do it based on a Nevada default
judgement where the client didn't even know there was a legal action under
way.
If you want to keep your domains, don't use .com or .net.
