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The company said today it wants to be able to enforce the "denial, cancellation or transfer of any registration" in any of a laundry list of scenarios where a domain is deemed to be "abusive". VeriSign should be able to shut down a .com or .net domain, and therefore its associated website and email, "to comply with any applicable court orders, laws, government rules or requirements, requests of law enforcement or other governmental or quasi-governmental agency, or any dispute resolution process", according to a document it filed today with domain name industry overseer ICANN.
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That bolded part is the problem. If they are shutting domains down based on court order, clear legislative rules and requirements... that's one thing. When it becomes broad enough to allow them, at their own discretion without any oversight, to shut down domains based on quasi-governmental dispute resolution there is way too much gray area for them to go after sites based on subjective obscenity beliefs, bogus claims, patent trolls with very little justification etc... and that 'cure' would be worse than the disease.
Only, if they limit it to very clear specific reasons for shutdowns would I be all for it.
