No, You Can't Seize Country TLDs, US Court Rules

itwbennett writes A U.S. court has quashed an attempt to seize Iran's, Syria's and North Korea's domains as part of a lawsuit against those countries' governments. The plaintiffs in the case wanted to seize the domains after they successfully sued Iran, Syria and North Korea as state sponsors of terrorism. But the court found the domains have the nature of a contractual right, and ruled that rights arising under a contract cannot be seized as part of a judgment.

Comments

Bennett! Bennett! He's our man!

[Anonymous Coward]

But what does Bennett Haselton think about this? I can't form an opinion until he weights in on this issue. He's a frequent contributor.

Interesting

[ZombieBraintrust]

Basically it works like this.
1) Amy has a contract to wash Bob's car for $100 month.
2) Carl sues Bob for murdering his dog.
3) The courts can not give Carl a contract with Amy. The courts can only award Carl with property and money taken from Bob.
Basically the courts can't force Amy to work with Carl. They can't force ICANN to work with the plantiffs.

Re:damn

[ArcadeMan]

We see the USA government as terrorists, but we won't say who we are, eh?

Re:damn

[mister_playboy]

but we won't say who we are, eh?

Canada, is that you?