Uncle Sam: If It Ends in .Com, It’s .Seizable

David Kravets Wired 3/6/2012

When U.S. authorities shuttered sports-wagering site Bodog.com last week, it raised eyebrows across the net because the domain name was registered with a Canadian company, ostensibly putting it beyond the reach of the U.S. government. Working around that, the feds went directly to VeriSign, a U.S.-based internet backbone company that has […]

US relinquishes control of the internet

• Icann ends agreement with the US government • Move will give other countries a prominent internet role

by Bobbie Johnson in San Francisco The Guardian [UK] Wednesday 30 September 2009

After complaints about American dominance of the internet and growing disquiet in some parts of the world, Washington has said it will relinquish […]

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