[LINK] Ars: 'US seizes domain name of Spanish company selling Cuba trips'

Tom Worthington Tom.Worthington at tomw.net.au
Tue Mar 11 17:07:31 AEDT 2008


At 12:46 PM 11/03/2008, Roger Clarke wrote:
>>US seizes domain name of Spanish company selling Cuba trips ...
>>http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080307-us-interferes-with-travel-to-cuba.html 
>>...
>
>[ICANN needs ... shift its operations from the US to a country that 
>meddles less in international affairs. ...

Perhaps ICANN should move to Cuba?  ;-)

More seriously, perhaps Belgium, as ICANN already have an office 
there <http://www.icann.org/general/contact.htm> and Brussels hosts 
international bodies. Switzerland would be an option, as that is 
where WIPO's Internet domain name arbitration process is based 
<http://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/>.

Less seriously again, ICANN's Californian HQ is just up the road from 
the Swiss Consulate; they could move the hardware there and plug it 
in: 
<http://maps.google.com.au/maps?f=d&hl=en&geocode=5515449199920286342,34.048262,-118.462417,4174529794476229050,33.980373,-118.440453&saddr=4676+Admiralty+Way+%23+330,+Marina+Del+Rey,+CA+90292,+United+States+(ICANN)&daddr=11766+Wilshire+Blvd,+Suite+1400,+Los+Angeles,+CA+90025,+USA+(Swiss+Consulate)&mra=pe&mrcr=0&sll=34.013396,-118.450813&sspn=0.126639,0.219727&ie=UTF8&ll=34.018518,-118.430901&spn=0.126631,0.219727&z=12>.



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