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Does anyone understand how domain seizing technically works? What are they actually doing? Whois'ing the domain shows the nameservers are with GoDaddy. Is it s
by sammcd 16y ago
Does anyone understand how domain seizing technically works? What are they actually doing?
Whois'ing the domain shows the nameservers are with GoDaddy. Is it so simple that they are just asking GoDaddy to change the site to this image?
I was going to assume that the government used ICANN to point it to their own name servers. Anyway, I'm just curious and would love if someone could shine some light on this.
- sammcd 16y agoHeh, guess you can change the A record of a name without having to update the whois info. All of these domains are just pointed to http://74.81.170.110/ http://74.81.170.110/
- andre 16y agosince .com/.net/.org are controlled by US companies, is the next step (for blogs/sites such as these) to move to .ru? or some other company not controlled by US companies?
- Raphael 16y agoBingo.
- alphabeat 16y agoHow does this work with ICANN being an American organisation controlling the . server?
- wmf 16y agoICANN can shut down all of a ccTLD or none of it; such a penalty is too large to ever use.
- andre 16y agoif you're going for a non com/net/org domain, I'm assuming you'd have to register it with a company that's not US based too, so no ordering .nl domains through Godaddy, cause that can still cause problems.
- gst 16y agoThere's no reason to use GoDaddy - there are plenty of other registrars. I never understood why GoDaddy has some form of monopolly in the US. Personally I use Domaindiscount24 (based in Germany) for my domains.
- ElbertF 16y agoIronically some have moved to China (.hk) for their internet freedom.
- gasull 16y agoNB: .hk is TLD for Hong Kong SAR (Special Administrative Region). While .cn is TLD for mainland China.
- stumm 16y agothey are not doing it at the Registrar level(by contacting the registrar for the domain and forcing them to update the authoritative name server info to point to NS1.SEIZEDSERVERS.COM, NS2.SEIZEDSERVERS.COM), but rather through the agency who controls the top level domain. In this case, all the “seized domains” appear to be .com and the agency/company who has the ICANN contract for this TLD is VeriSign(which also controls .net TLD). More details can be found here: http://rulingclass.wordpress.com/2010/11/28/the-background-dope-on-dhs-recent-seizure-of-domains/ http://rulingclass.wordpress.com/2010/11/28/the-background-d...
- sammcd 16y agoThanks, that is exactly what I was looking for.
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- dholowiski 16y agoRegistrant: Seized Domains ATTN SEIZEDSERVERS.COM care of Network Solutions PO Box 459 Drums, PA. US 18222 Domain Name: SEIZEDSERVERS.COM Administrative Contact, Technical Contact: Solutions, IT ATTN SEIZEDSERVERS.COM care of Network Solutions PO Box 459 Drums, PA 18222 US 570-708-8780 Record expires on 24-Nov-2011. Record created on 24-Nov-2010. Domain servers in listed order: NS1.SEIZEDSERVERS.COM 74.81.170.109 NS2.SEIZEDSERVERS.COM 74.81.170.108
- Robin_Message 16y agoIsn't this why the ICANN contract for a TLD should not belong to an American corporation? Logically, it should go a company in Switzerland, who have traditionally handled such things, and continue to be perceived as low in corruption [1] and high in democracy [2], with strong property rights [3]. They tend to be neutral in wars, and are not part of the EU (which is probably a bad idea for an independent TLD.) [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index [3]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Property_Rights_Index http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Property_Rights_I...