[At-Large] Local police takes over domains from foreign countries

[Raoul Chiesa - CD CLUSIT]

Hi all.
Well, here we had a similar issue, degenerated into a show of ignorance.
Shortly:
- a web site published the resume of a - fake - phone call between Mr.
Silvio Berlusconi and Mr. Fedele Confalonieri, Mediaset TV President.
- Italian police decided to take over the web site....
- An Italian police officer (?), since the ISP was "Aruba" (a very well
known hosting web farm) tought that he had to extradict to Aruba's
Antilles island....
- ADNKronos News Agency reported the news that a web site in the
Carribean was going to be took over  (!)

http://www.lastknight.com/2008/07/07/laprivatarepubblica/

I do not know what's "better", a competent police officer that decides
to take over domains from foreign countries, rather than an ignorant
police officer even unable to correctly perform an "whois" :(

Cheers,
Raoul

-- 
Raoul Chiesa (OPST, OPSA)
Membro del Comitato Direttivo - Steering Board Member
CLUSIT - Associazione Italiana per la Sicurezza Informatica
CLUSIT - Italian Computer Security Association
Università degli Studi di Milano - University of Milan
Dipartimento di Informatica e Comunicazione - IT Department
rchiesa at clusit.it - www.clusit.it 



Yassin Mshana ha scritto:
> Amusing stuff!
>  
> Domains and their locations..... how can one tell the location of a domain name I wonder.
>  
> Where are the borders? Is it a taxation issue?
>  
> Need to be enlightened in this.....> Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 14:21:20 +0000> From: johnl at iecc.com> To: at-large at atlarge-lists.icann.org> Subject: Re: [At-Large] Local police takes over domains from foreign countries> > > My question is: Does the ICANN allow registrars to change the holder instead> > of setting the domain on "hold" in such a situation?> > Nobody really knows.> > There is a similar case in Kentucky in the US in which the state claims > that a long list of gambling domains are operating illegally in Kentucky, > and wants to take over all those domains. But none of them have any > operations in Kentucky, and most of them have no operations anywhere in > the U.S. The state is clearly completely wrong, but the judge is > proceeding cautiously, since it is rare for a state to file such a > completely meritless suit.> > Regards,> John Levine, johnl at iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",> Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, ex-Mayor> "More Wiener schni
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