Re: [wg-review] RE: Domains and other matters

["Miles B. Whitener" <mbw@i-theta.com>]

> 1/15/01 1:22:48 PM, "Miles B. Whitener" <mbw@i-theta.com>
wrote:
>
> >If I grab it, you should have no recourse but
> >to ask me for it, or try to get some court to yank it.  NOT
THE
> >REGISTRY.  What registry in its right mind would WANT to be in
> >the middle of such issues?   Insane.
>
> How about WHICH court?  Is there a court of competent
jurisdiction for the whole world, or will any court do?
>
> Sotiris Sotiropoulos
>           Hermes Network, Inc.

If the dispute is within national boundaries ("intra-national"),
the answer is obvious.

International disputes are traditionally settled ... however they
are.  In many cases, you just get away with it.  But there are
certainly treaties whereby your home country can hold you
accountable, even to the point of extradition (over a DNS issue
??   I can see the headlines now: "Whitener Extradited to Canada
for Domain Hijacking -- Faces Long Prison Term Without Net Access
and Certainly No Personal Domains"
:--}

In our two cases, I imagine it's relatively easy (relative to
other international issues) for a Canadian to take recourse
against a ... USA-an, and vice versa, though I suspect it's
harder for us  ;--(  than for you.

The ISO-coded national TLDs can help here.   If you register
sotiris.CA, then NSI and (I hope) ICANN can't touch you.  Now if
CA is run in such a way that you can't register anything at all,
I cannot help you, eh?  :--]


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