Re[2]: [ga] The Network Solutions contribution to international terror

[William X Walsh <william@wxsoft.info>]

Tuesday, Tuesday, December 04, 2001, 12:04:01 AM, William S. Lovell wrote:

> Verisign, ISPs, registrars, and registrants. (It would seem that a
> registry is merely a record keeper, as I now look at it, but I
> could be corrected.)

I think that depends on the type of registry, really.

The Verisign "thin registry" model is setup so that the registry has
no data on registrants, as far as the registry is concerned, the
registrants really don't exist, the registry isn't even a party to the
registration agreement.

The registry model being used for both .biz and .info is different,
the registry actually does know the registrant information, and is in
fact a party to the contract with the end user.

In the latter case, it seems to me a claim could be made that the
Registry was doing business with an embargoed country if a registrar
registered a domain to an entity in said country.  I could be wrong
that, I'll leave that to you trained legal monkeys to sort out :)

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William X Walsh <william@wxsoft.info>
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