sezing ICANN ???

[Christopher Browne]

On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Digimer <linux-5ZoueyuiTZhBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> In this case, the US-owned root DNS servers could have their global trust
> revoked, this triggering clients to disregard them in favour of root servers
> with higher trust.

I don't think this was done at the DNS server level, even though
that's what the story may have said.

After all, the root servers wouldn't respond to any of the requests in
question, such as for torrent-finder.com.

The root servers only respond for requests for top level domains, such
as .com, .net, .edu, .org, info, .aero, .museum, and the 200-ish
country code TLDs.

DNS for torrent-finder.com is handled via the operator of .com, namely Verisign.

I presume that what happened is that the US government served
Verisign, a US-based company, with the "takedown request."

And I observe that the entire list of names thus far
(http://torrentfreak.com/u-s-government-seizes-bittorrent-search-engine-domain-and-more-101126/)
are all in .com and .net.

The procedure would presumably be different (perhaps to the point of
not functioning) for a name registered through a registry not based in
the United States.
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