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US Asserts Super-Jurisdiction Over Dot-Com, Dot-Net, and Dot-Org Domains

Posted by timothy on from the mother-may-I dept.

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."

4 of 395 comments (clear)

  1. America fuck yeah! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    We invented it and we own it. Eat shit eurotrash. Make your own Internet and stop leeching if you don't like it.

  2. Re:Of course by Fallingcow · · Score: 4, Funny

    It just so happens that the USA has a history of saying .com is ours, and due to their early adoption of the Internet they managed to get away with it.

    We need a "+1 unintentionally hilarious" mod option.

  3. What? by schroedogg · · Score: 5, Funny

    All your domain are belong to U.S.!

  4. Re:I've been getting several emails by houstonbofh · · Score: 4, Funny

    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...