Wednesday, March 7th 2012
Anything that Ends in .com Seizable by US Government
Last week, US authorities shut down a Canadian-run website that ends with the TLD (top-level domain) ".com", raising eyebrows. It appears that the US is staking claim to the ".com" TLD, letting the authorities seize any ".com" domain, even of websites that are not American. Internet infrastructure company EasyDNS, in its latest blog post, said "[the] ramifications of this are no less than chilling and every single organization branded or operating under .com, .net, .org, .biz etc. needs to ask themselves about their vulnerability to the whims of U.S. federal and state lawmakers."
This latest controversy highlights how "the U.S. continues to hold over key components of the global domain name system, and rips a Band-Aid off a historic sore point for other nations," Wired commented. It also strengthens the case for non-American businesses and internet companies to opt for local TLDs (eg: ".co.uk", ".de", ".in", etc.,). Naming yourself "Dotcom" isn't such a bright idea, either.
Source: Wired, Image Courtesy: VegasDomain.org
This latest controversy highlights how "the U.S. continues to hold over key components of the global domain name system, and rips a Band-Aid off a historic sore point for other nations," Wired commented. It also strengthens the case for non-American businesses and internet companies to opt for local TLDs (eg: ".co.uk", ".de", ".in", etc.,). Naming yourself "Dotcom" isn't such a bright idea, either.
34 Comments on Anything that Ends in .com Seizable by US Government
:shadedshu
Let me tell you brother about a nice and humble man named Newt Gingrich. He is docile and has a robot wife that he cares very much for.. aww screw it.
There are plenty of more reasons...but I myself won't be voting at all ever again, because it really makes no difference. I love how it (pro-politics) encourages people to vote when in reality its just another thing for us to waste our precious time on.
I suggest people to rent and watch the documentary called "Bigger, Stronger, Faster".
damm you
And forget lethal injection, we switched back to stoning a few years ago.
How hard are we going to get fucked before somebody snaps? Do we even have any rights left?
In a word: no. Every consitutional and "god given" right has been taken away by the USA government at least once. People are wrongfully accused and imprisoned, people practicing their freedom of speech get imprisoned for creating a "public disturbance," the press has no freedom when it comes to getting information from the government on numerous subjects, guns are no longer legal in many public and private situations, many laws have been made preventing the free practice of religion (e.g. Obama's requirements on religious-based insurance companies funding abortions), and peaceful assemblies of people often get bruttally taken down by police forces.
The Constution? It might as well not exist.
And one more reason to do that: pot is legal in Sweden.