[ga] Doing business with U.S. embargoed entities

["William S. Lovell" <wsl@cerebalaw.com>]

William X Walsh wrote:

> 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 :)

Well, this legal monkey would hazard the guess that you've made
precisely the right distinction, of which I was not previously aware.
I haven't followed the whole .biz, .info bit, and it would seem that
if the U. S. entities registering under those extensions registered
osamabinladen.biz, they'd be in a peck of trouble, while Verisign
would fit my assumption above and be off the hook.  (I've changed
the subject of this thread.)  So the next question is, what are the
responsibilities of ICANN, besides its own following of the law,
to ensure that those whom it has accredited to use the TLDs that
it has established likewise obey the law?

Bill Lovell


>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> William X Walsh <william@wxsoft.info>
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The URLs for Best Practices:
DNSO Citation:
http://www.dnso.org/dnso/gaindex.html
(Under "Other Information Documents"; "August 2001:
Proposal for Best Practices for the DNSO GA." This
page also includes much else about the DNSO.)
Part I:
http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/20010813.GA-BestPractices.html
Part II:
http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/20010813.GA-BP-flowchart.pdf
(Access to the .pdf file requires the Adobe Acrobat Reader,
available for free down load at
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html.)
Part III:
http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/20010813.GA-BP-PartIII.html


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