South Africa Wants Control of .za

fdiaz5583 writes "Recently, the South African government wants to seize control of the .za domain. However, ICANN owns the domains and under the ICANN rules, they will not relinquish control. Mike Lawrie who is global administrator of domain names states: 'If it becomes illegal for me to do the job under South African law and if I am not authorized by ICANN to hand over the administration, the .za domain will have to shut down until the issue is cleared up'." We mentioned this tussle earlier. The .za administrator doesn't like the way the government is going about this; the government, of course, has men with guns, so it's not like he's going to win in the end, it's only a question of how ugly it will get.

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KEEP THE GOVERNMENT OUT!!!!!

[crovira]

All elected officials know how to do is make more and more and more laws and run for re-election.

KEEP THE GOVERNMENT OUT!!!!!

They pass laws declaring that the value for Pi is 4. They pass laws declaring that you have to have a man walking in from of you automobile with a red flag warning people.

KEEP THE GOVERNMENT OUT!!!!!

And they never have expiration dates on these laws so these gems of tryumphs of political maneuvering over common sense or even the laws of physics.

You're stuck with them forever.

Any law that hasn't seen anyone charged in four years should be eliminated.

Any ex-lawyer politician who propoosed a bill that was made into law that has never seen anyone charged should be eliminated along with the law.

Kiss your political ass/baby-kissing career goodbye you tax-fattened hyena.)

KEEP THE GOVERNMENT OUT!!!!!