{"id":3295,"date":"2012-03-01T16:55:11","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T22:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=3295"},"modified":"2012-03-01T18:31:18","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T00:31:18","slug":"verisign-seizes-com-domain-registered-via-foreign-registrar-on-behalf-of-us-authorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=3295","title":{"rendered":"Verisign seizes .com domain registered via foreign Registrar on behalf of US Authorities."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>But at the end of the day what has happened is that US law (in fact, Maryland state law) as been imposed on a .com domain operating outside the USA, which is the subtext we were very worried about when we commented on SOPA. Even though SOPA is currently in limbo, <strong>the reality that US law can now be asserted over all domains registered under .com, .net, org, .biz and maybe .info<\/strong> (Afilias is headquartered in Ireland by operates out of the US).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/blog2.easydns.org\/2012\/02\/29\/verisign-seizes-com-domain-registered-via-foreign-registrar-on-behalf-of-us-authorities\/\">Verisign seizes .com domain registered via foreign Registrar on behalf of US Authorities. \u00bb blog2.easydns.org &#8211; Happenings and observations<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But at the end of the day what has happened is that US law (in fact, Maryland state law) as been imposed on a .com domain operating outside the USA, which is the subtext we were very worried about when &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=3295\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[136,326],"class_list":["post-3295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ip","tag-dns","tag-registrar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3295"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3299,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3295\/revisions\/3299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}