Re: [ga] court supervision, follow on article

["Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law" <froomkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think this statement of ICANN's is correct.  This whole thing is a 
non-issue.

On Wed, 11 Oct 2006, Veni Markovski wrote:

> http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-10oct06.htm
>
> Even if ICANN were properly brought before the court in this matter, which 
> ICANN has not been, ICANN cannot comply with any order requiring it to 
> suspend or place a client hold on Spamhaus.org or any specific domain name 
> because ICANN does not have either the ability or the authority to do so. 
> Only the Internet registrar with whom the registrant has a contractual 
> relationship - and in certain instances the Internet registry - can suspend 
> an individual domain name.

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