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Originally Posted by Dirty Dane
This is coordinated by Interpol. US is only one jurisdiction  |
The *jurisdiction* is the United States. Like it or not, .com and many other TLDs belong to the US government. On top of that, the US government ultimately controls the assigned numbers system to all other TLDs. Like it or not, that's the way it currently is.
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Originally Posted by Dirty Dane
I'm sure they can have their domains back if the authorities were unreasonable.  |
They'd have to appeal to ICANN, which is - wait for it! - a US corporation!
Yeah, sure. There's this Green Paper thingie and other agreements that supposedly even the playing field, but when it comes down to it, the US government holds a hand with five aces.
So whatever the US is going to do to protect revenue-generating industries it's going to do. Not that they'll do squat for adult - this is for the movie and music industries.