Anything that Ends in .com Seizable by US Government

btarunr · Mar 7, 2012

Last week, US authorities shut down a Canadian-run website that ends with the TLD (top-level domain) ".com", raising eyebrows. It appears that the US is staking claim to the ".com" TLD, letting the authorities seize any ".com" domain, even of websites that are not American. Internet infrastructure company EasyDNS, in its latest blog post, said "[the] ramifications of this are no less than chilling and every single organization branded or operating under .com, .net, .org, .biz etc. needs to ask themselves about their vulnerability to the whims of U.S. federal and state lawmakers."

This latest controversy highlights how "the U.S. continues to hold over key components of the global domain name system, and rips a Band-Aid off a historic sore point for other nations," Wired commented. It also strengthens the case for non-American businesses and internet companies to opt for local TLDs (eg: ".co.uk", ".de", ".in", etc.,). Naming yourself "Dotcom" isn't such a bright idea, either.

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Munki · Mar 7, 2012

Great, another power trip for America.

Inceptor · Mar 7, 2012

btarunr said:
Naming yourself "Dotcom" isn't such a bright idea, either.

Well, it does instantly get you more page views/customers/readers. Everyone has 'dotcom' on the brain.

btarunr · Mar 7, 2012

Inceptor said:
Well, it does instantly get you more page views/customers/readers. Everyone has 'dotcom' on the brain.

I think you didn't get the joke.

radusorin · Mar 7, 2012

Love the "we dont give a fuck, and piss on you" ideea :laugh:

. I dont know but to me america feels more and more like a big bully. I mean after SOPA/ACTA fails i get the felling they just dont care, something like, we try to make it legal, but it failed so we dont give a fuck, gonna do this shet anyway :shadedshu. No problem if it only local, but wen you star to do this globally it feels like :nutkick:

. O well whatever :toast:

Inceptor · Mar 7, 2012

btarunr said:
I think you didn't get the joke.

You mean the megaupload guy. I wasn't even thinking of that, but yes, terrible name.

btarunr · Mar 7, 2012

Inceptor said:
You mean the megaupload guy. I wasn't even thinking of that, but yes, terrible name.

Yup, he's in the process of "getting seized" (read: extradited) by the US authorities. :laugh:

anonymous6366 · Mar 7, 2012

Munki said:
Great, another power trip for America.

yeah no kidding, if the world is a middle school we are for sure the bully that no one likes

AphexDreamer · Mar 7, 2012

Give me your lunch money! I mean websites!

DRDNA · Mar 7, 2012

Better the USA than anyone else that is for sure. Maybe I am bias as I am in the USA :toast:

Athlon2K15 · Mar 7, 2012

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWS-FoXbjVI

trickson · Mar 7, 2012

Obama nation hard at work! Hope and change ! This is one reason why I am not voting for Obama!

m1dg3t · Mar 7, 2012

The NWO in action! It start's with the internet....

:shadedshu

Athlon2K15 · Mar 7, 2012

trickson said:
Obama nation hard at work! Hope and change ! This is one reason why I am not voting for Obama!

Yes! because it is his fault. I would much rather Obama stay in office than some mormon f*cktard like Romney take office

radarblade · Mar 7, 2012

This is one of those conspiracies like SOPA and the likes. :wtf:

erocker · Mar 7, 2012

Hopefully many other larger countries will evenutally put the US in it's place. I'm American and this crap is getting out of hand.

Let me tell you brother about a nice and humble man named Newt Gingrich. He is docile and has a robot wife that he cares very much for.. aww screw it.

Kantastic · Mar 7, 2012

trickson said:
Obama nation hard at work! Hope and change ! This is one reason why I am not voting for Obama!

Oh yeah lets blame Obama!

ThE_MaD_ShOt · Mar 7, 2012

Oh you Americans are just so crazy.

happita · Mar 7, 2012

AthlonX2 said:
Yes! because it is his fault. I would much rather Obama stay in office than some mormon f*cktard like Romney take office

Makes no difference. They are ALL puppets. The sooner everyone opens up their mind to the many different possitilities, then people's thought processes will get ramped up 100x fold.

trickson said:
Obama nation hard at work! Hope and change ! This is one reason why I am not voting for Obama!

There are plenty of more reasons...but I myself won't be voting at all ever again, because it really makes no difference. I love how it (pro-politics) encourages people to vote when in reality its just another thing for us to waste our precious time on.

I suggest people to rent and watch the documentary called "Bigger, Stronger, Faster".

Athlon2K15 · Mar 7, 2012

sounds like a Daft Punk porno

wahdangun · Mar 8, 2012

wow, just wow, you american really are worst than iran, i hope every country block your IP address, so you will taste your own medicine.

damm you

newtekie1 · Mar 8, 2012

It isn't just .com, it is .net and .org too. It says that in the article. Scary.

DannibusX · Mar 8, 2012

wahdangun said:
wow, just wow, you american really are worst than iran, i hope every country block your IP address, so you will taste your own medicine.

damm you

Yeah, we totally hang the gays here, make women walk behind us and force the entire population to follow sharia law.

And forget lethal injection, we switched back to stoning a few years ago.

Damn_Smooth · Mar 8, 2012

This reminds me of a qubit topic.

How hard are we going to get fucked before somebody snaps? Do we even have any rights left?

FordGT90Concept · Mar 8, 2012

Munki said:
Great, another power trip for America.

'Tis true except this time it is in cyberspace. If the government didn't have $3.5 trillion to blow on stuff like this, it wouldn't happen.

Damn_Smooth said:
Do we even have any rights left?

In a word: no. Every consitutional and "god given" right has been taken away by the USA government at least once. People are wrongfully accused and imprisoned, people practicing their freedom of speech get imprisoned for creating a "public disturbance," the press has no freedom when it comes to getting information from the government on numerous subjects, guns are no longer legal in many public and private situations, many laws have been made preventing the free practice of religion (e.g. Obama's requirements on religious-based insurance companies funding abortions), and peaceful assemblies of people often get bruttally taken down by police forces.

The Constution? It might as well not exist.

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