US shuts down Canadian gambling site with Verisign's help

[J65nko]

From http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03..._via_verisign/

The Department of Homeland Security has seized a domain name registered outside of the US, by individuals who are not American citizens, and who registered with a Canadian registrar.

What is unique about this case is that the American authorities did not get the domain's registrar - a Canadian company - to pull the domain. Instead they went to Verisign, which operates the entirety of .com, and had them pull the glue records, the warrant states.

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By going to the root operator of .com and having the records pulled - bypassing the registrar entirely - the DHS has sent the world exactly one message: anything hosted in the US, registered in the US, or using a domain whose root is controlled by a US corporation is subject to American law.

[Ninguem]

That is screwed up as hell. Damn. Our heads are permanently in our arses. Santa Merda, we have lost our minds.
Wow.