Jim Dixon wrote: > Nevertheless, what has happened here demonstrates a basic flaw at the > heart of the domain name system. ICANN and many essential Internet > resources remain subject to US jurisdiction. ICANN itself is just a > California corporation, so it is subject to the passing whims of the > California legislature as well as those of Congress, the executive > branches, and various and sundry US state and federal courts. right. it should be icann.int instead of icann.org - while the UN has it's seat in new york, it can at least keep a front of not being a long arm of the US government. incidently - all the DNS crazyness may lead to a "new regionalism". I know for a fact that the next domains I register will be .de domains, not .net or .org as my current ones all are. actually, I plan to operate a (small but) worldwide business on a .de domain. primary reason: not to get fucked over by some <censored> who decides on a windy morning that cyberspace is a state of the USofAssholes.