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

[Kim Davies]

Tom, all,

The article in question refers to a US company (eNom) retailing goods  
and complying with the laws in their country for doing so. I would  
assume they would be required to follow their national law no matter  
where ICANN would be based.

kim

On Mar 11, 2008, at 7:07 AM, Tom Worthington <Tom.Worthington at tomw.net.au 
 > wrote:

> 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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