Re: [wg-review] RE: Domains and other matters

[Bret Busby <bret@clearsol.iinet.net.au>]

Sotiropoulos wrote:
> 
> 1/15/01 1:22:48 PM, "Miles B. Whitener" <mbw@i-theta.com> wrote:
> 
> >If I grab it, you should have no recourse but
> >to ask me for it, or try to get some court to yank it.  NOT THE
> >REGISTRY.  What registry in its right mind would WANT to be in
> >the middle of such issues?   Insane.
> 
> How about WHICH court?  Is there a court of competent jurisdiction for the whole world, or will any court do?
> 
> Sotiris Sotiropoulos
>           Hermes Network, Inc.

Thank you, my friend.

I believe that I raised this, to quite a great extent, in a long message
about jurisdictions, and, competence. And, given the Yahoo case where
Yahoo has applied for a declaratory injuction, that the decision of a
french court does not apply in the USA, it is obviously not an area,
where jurisdiction and coptentency of courts can be assumed.

I would have responded to the message about registrars having to
transfer domain names only at the order of a court, but, sometimes, the
trolling to gets too much to respond to.

My understanding is that, at present, the only court with acknowledged
world-wide jurisdiction, is the one that sits in the Hague, and, as far
as I know, it hasn't yet got involved in domain name disputes.

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Bret Busby

Armadale, West Australia

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