from out of the bowels of big brother ICANN comes this reassuring tidbit:
Concerns about "rights" and "ownership" of domains are
inappropriate. It is appropriate to be concerned about
"responsibilities" and "service" to the community.
Thats why porn sites are so ....
A license, a trademark, are property. As lomg as you pay the leasehold amounts, you own the license to a domain.
Mike Masin wrote:
> I thought the Registry owns the domain and the registration is only a
> license to use it. Is that wrong?
>
> m2
>
> On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 08:56:21 -0700
> Michael Dean <michaelldean@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
>> why so much traffic about one Southern bigot? One comeback is that
>> domains registered by a Canadian registrar become personal property,
>> while those registered in the U.S. are not personal property. That
>> is my conclusion after reviewing current law, but of course, I am not
>> a lawyer. Adam Selene wrote:
>>
>>>> He's from the Southern US, and informed us that he would only do
>>>> business with American companies.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Suggest he do business with a more patriotic company such as Verisign,
>>> who provides wiretapping infrastructure (Versign NetDiscovery)
>>> allowing law enforcement and Homeland Security officials listen to
>>> the telephone, fax and data transmissions of American citizens.
>>>
>>> Adam
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
>
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