Uncle Sam wants YOU -- and your .com URL
The U.S. govement can take out your .com (or your .net, .biz or .org) domain any time it da well pleases -- even if said domain is registered through another country. According to a chilling Wired article, a loophole allows Uncle Sam to shutter sites using these top-level domains because VeriSign, the company that manages them, is U.S-based.
EasyDNS, an Inteet infrastructure company protesting this power to pilfer URLs at will, blogs that \"this is no longer a doom-and-gloom theory by some guy in a tin foil hat. It just happened.\" The online exodus has already started: The Pirate Bay recently dumped its .org domain and switched over to the Swedish \".se\" suffix to escape Big Brother-esque interference.
Is it right that the govement can seize URLs?
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Mike Gallagher
Freelance writer with a passion for travelling
