RE: [ga] FYI: Alleged links between WTC attacks and domain names

[Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>]

John,

It is not only DN registrations. How do they pay for them? Aren't VISA,
MASTERCARD, AmEx, et al, also US based companies?

|> From: John Berryhill [mailto:john@johnberryhill.com]
|> Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2001 12:05 AM

|> As far as *any* relevance to whois data, it is well beyond 
|> obvious that the
|> only data which counts is the credit card data used to 
|> purchase the domain
|> names, and which is readily available to law enforcement.
|> 
|> The media blurb on these unregistered names, while other 
|> domain names remain
|> registered and used by governments and organizations which 
|> have been deemed
|> terrorist organizations in the US and with whom doing 
|> business is illegal in
|> the US, demonstrates an odd set of priorities.  The revenue 
|> derived by US
|> registrars from domain names registered to parties in Iraq, 
|> Libya, Cuba, and
|> other embargoed countries is well into the hundreds of 
|> thousands of dollars,
|> according to one estimate I have been provided.
|> 
|> Additionally, ICANN itself maintained operation of the .yu 
|> top-level domain
|> during the entire time that doing business with the Federal 
|> Republic of
|> Yugoslavia was contrary to US law.  Not only that, but ICANN had the
|> unmitigated gall to send a bill of $1446.05 to Yugoslavia (see
|> http://www.icann.org/financials/cctld-contribution-chart-10ma
y00.htm )
so that an indicted war criminal could continue to spew his propaganda at
www.gov.yu during our armed conflict with him.  The FRY was the subject of
OFAC regulations, and their service should have been shut off immediately.

If Mike Roberts doesn't want "terrorists" voting in the At-Large, then it is
well beyond time that he and others who support ICANN wake up and remember
that their sole claim of authority rests on an agreement with the Government
of the United States, and ONLY the United States, and that their maintenance
of a market which is actively engaging in commercial transactions with
enemies of the United States should be discontinued.
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