On Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 05:54:02PM -0400, Gary R Wright wrote:
Karl Mueller writes:
Clearly, .COM is used for criminal and malicious activities. I propose that we remove it due to abuse.
This points out the legal ambiguity of the global top-level domains. At least with the .to domain it is clear who is responsible for the domain. With .com, .net, etc. the name space crosses legal boundaries inviting all sorts of legal confusion. The legal situation could be clarified considerably if the gtld's were moved under the country code domains.
Actually, now that I think about it, it is hard for me to come up with a situation where you could possibly hold a TLD administrator liable for criminal activities perpetrated by a domain registrant. I'm sure someone else will come up with something. -- Anyone who spams me will be subject to torture by Jake, my killer attack hedgehog, and/or Lizzy and Junior, my man-eating iguanas.