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It comes down to which specific registrars will listen to the US government when Uncle Sam tells the registrar to point the TLD dns entries for the domain to IC
by chopsueyar 15y ago
It comes down to which specific registrars will listen to the US government when Uncle Sam tells the registrar to point the TLD dns entries for the domain to ICE's dns server.
I do not know what happens when multiple registrars update the TLDs with conflicting information? Is that allowed? Can ICANN intervene and force a TLD update, bypassing a registrar?
- JoachimSchipper 15y agoICANN can, in theory, "steal" any TLD. It would cause a humongous shitstorm, though, and I'm not sure that all root server operators would cooperate.
- zbowling 15y agowith ICE, they go straight to Verisign with ICANN consent and take the domain at the root without involving the registers. The way it works is that registrars for .COM and .NET work with Verisign who runs on the root name servers for those TLDs. It used to be Internic which was operated by Network Solutions, which was bought by Verisign but then NS was later spun back off, but Verisign kept the root name servers. .ORG was given to another organization at some point to manage.
- dedward 15y agoIf it were notices sent to registrars, yes (talking .com, for instance). A US based registrar is bound by US law. A UK based registrar is not. In these cases they are going after the registry itself (Verisign) which is completely under US law and the individual registrars have no involvement whatsoever.