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Originally Posted by Chief
I just had a look. It seems as though it was done through verisign. At least two of the domains were held by registrars abroad. One in Canada and one in China. Seems like quite the development if the US is now exerting that type of control over the tld system.
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It doesn't matter who the registrar is, though it's easier to take control of a domain if the registrar is US-based. The registrant's location is irrelevant.
.COM, .NET, and many other TLDs are controlled by the US government, and if they want to exert pressure for this kind of thing they will. Looks like they are.
VeriSign administers the .COM TLD. That's why when they raise prices, registrars like GoDaddy send out all those emails to get you to renew for years in advance.