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US Asserts Super-Jurisdiction Over Dot-Com, Dot-Net, and Dot-Org Domains
An anonymous reader writes "Michael Geist reports that last week State of Maryland prosecutors were able to
obtain a warrant ordering Verisign, the company that manages the dot-com domain name registry, to redirect the website to a warning page
advising that it has been seized by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The message from the case is clear: all dot-com, dot-net, and
dot-org domain names are subject to U.S. jurisdiction regardless of where they operate or where they were registered. This grants the U.S. a form of 'super-jurisdiction' over Internet activities, since most other
countries are limited to jurisdiction with a real and substantial
connection."
Won't this just encourage other companies, or even US companies, to switch to a national domain?
Silly citizen, the United States is only claiming authority over the generic TLDs, they're not pretending they understand how the domain name system works.
We invented it and we own it. Eat shit eurotrash. Make your own Internet and stop leeching if you don't like it.
We need a "+1 unintentionally hilarious" mod option.
All your domain are belong to U.S.!
These guys might not like that... http://www.parliament.uk/ But with this site they may be on to something... https://www.whitehouse.gov/
More amusingly the ssl is broken, so it comes up with the "This Connection is Untrusted" message. Truer words were never written...
Ah, I see. Because I know that you can go to your local bank (or the airport!) and exchange currencies, I must be an Eeeeeevil 1%-er henchman! So tell me, how is junior high school debate club going? Has anyone been honest enough, yet, to point out that just because your school system is running a self-esteem-based program wherein nobody is ever told that they're not doing something well, that ... your rhetorical skills are stuck on 10-year-old-girl mode? That was pretty resourceful, though, using Google to look up "rich guy that does something I can't understand that involves money and trade and stuff, and some idiots in Occupy Des Moines say I should hate him because he does that stuff" so you could have your cartoon villain reference while attempting your lamely ad hominem little jab.
Is it all embarassing to have nothing of substance to say, or worse, to know that anything you want to say will be intellectually bankrupt, thus forcing you to embarass yourself instead with lazy, tone-deaf attempts at insult? Does it make you cry, and text your girlfriends, if your mom lets you use her phone? Please return to ripping off Justin Bieber files, and leave discussion about things like imports and exports to people who don't think it's, like, so unfair that people don't all want to give away what they produce every day, and some of them actually live on the other side of your national border. It's quite possible, in fact, that your My Little Pony collection was made by someone who lives in another country, but who was still able to get paid for that effort despite the fact that you paid in US dollars at the retail level. Wow! So, like, Eeeeevil! That should, like, totally be stopped, or something, because there shouldn't have to be, like, banks and stuff because it's all so mean and stuff, right?
Grow up or go away. Either would be fine.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.