sezing ICANN ???

Digimer linux-5ZoueyuiTZhBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org
Mon Nov 29 19:58:37 UTC 2010


On 11/29/2010 02:37 PM, Christopher Browne wrote:
> 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.

I was making a suggestion in response to a question asked when I 
proposed de-centralizing control of core Internet resources.

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