On December 3, 2010, David Conrad <d...@virtualized.org> wrote: > When folks with guns and little sense of humor show up at your door with > a sealed court ordered warrant relating to resources you have direct > authority over, would you tell them to talk to a retailer for that > resource? Oh, and don't forget VeriSign has a contract (cooperative > agreement? whatever) involving the USG for the administration of > COM/NET. >
It doesn't take guns. Verisign will steal domains from any registrar if they receive a US court order. I've seem them do it based on a Nevada default judgement where the client didn't even know there was a legal action under way. If you want to keep your domains, don't use .com or .net.