[At-Large] Seizuring a level too deep

[Carlton Samuels]

Well-reasoned and persuasive!

Carlton

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On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Wendy Seltzer <wendy at seltzer.com> wrote:

> On 02/16/2011 12:19 PM, Lutz Donnerhacke wrote:
> >
> http://torrentfreak.com/u-s-government-shuts-down-84000-websites-by-mistake-110216/
> > ...
> >  The domain in question is mooo.com, which belongs to the DNS provider
> >  FreeDNS. It is the most popular shared domain at afraid.org and as a
> result
> >  of the authorities’ actions a massive 84,000 subdomains were wrongfully
> >  seized as well. All sites were redirected to the banner below.
> > ...
> >
> > Next time try to seize the TLD or the root directly.
>
> Shh, don't give them ideas!  I think that's the next step after COICA
> (the US domain disablement bill that would give the US government power
> to stop domain name resolution at the registry, registrar, or other
> service provider, over claims of copyright or trademark infringement).
>
> I actually used some of ICANN's SSAC work in arguments against COICA in
> an IEEE column:
> <http://wendy.seltzer.org/pubs/COICA-IEEE.pdf>
>
> --Wendy
>
>
>
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