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March 7th, 2012 at 12:49 pm
A new top level domain is needed: “.fu”.
Then register “www.com.fu” and provide a service to redirect names. E.g., piratesRus registers “www.piratesRus.fu” and the service redirects “www.piratesRus.com.fu” to the that name. Now when the *original* “www.piratesRus.com” domain is seized and you get redirected to the government site just add “.fu” to the name and hit enter.
March 7th, 2012 at 1:07 pm
While I’ll be the last one to support this cabal of Marxist thugs, the administration is in this case getting a court order, so there’s at least some adult reviewing the evidence before the seizure. About as much as you can hope for in our current society.
March 7th, 2012 at 3:01 pm
yeah, I’m sure they’re not using a rubber stamp.
/s
March 7th, 2012 at 4:58 pm
The problem is that the court is not realizing that sites owned by persons who live outside the US, and hosted on servers outside of the US, are not bound by US law. Therefore their personal property, the domain name, is NOT seizable.
March 7th, 2012 at 9:43 pm
Not private property … just a naming consensus.
The problem is that the top level DNS server is administrated by a client of the US government.
If they keep playing this game, there is nothing stopping a foreign government or group from creating a new top level DNS, and competing with the US one.
March 7th, 2012 at 10:29 pm
Swamp, would those be the same breed of adults who review all the no-knock warrants we read so much about? I don’t care that policy is being applied when said policy is inherently offensive.
Kristopher is correct; the most popular TLDs do fall under US jurisdiction. The good news is that working around that is easy (when the US DoJ seized Brit-owned poker sites they were again operational in less than 24 hours with a .eu extension). The bad news is that I keep hearing rumblings that many non-US firms are growing ever more reluctant to engage in business with US firms that conduct any sort of virtualization or cloud solutions on US-controlled TLDs. Though I do like to fantasize that this could result in resurrecting the good old days of numbered bank accounts that are all but impenetrable by the revenoo’ers.