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Re: [ga] Jurisdiction



On Thu, Dec 16, 1999 at 09:00:39AM -0800, Bret Fausett wrote:
> R.Gaetano@iaea.org wrote:
> > If two different courts, one in the US and one somewhere else, claim to have
> > jurisdiction and rule in a contradictory way, NSI will have no other choice
> > than obey the decision of the US court.
> 
> So, in effect, U.S. citizens have superior rights in domain names than
> everyone else in the world? Surely that can't be the result.

As I understand it, that is the result.  That is a major problem with 
the "cybersquatting bill".

Kent

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Kent Crispin                               "Do good, and you'll be
kent@songbird.com                           lonesome." -- Mark Twain