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Re: Ukraine request yikes
From: Rubens Kuhl <rubensk () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2022 17:27:20 -0300
More or less. The Government Advisory Committee member from Ukraine has asked ICANN to: - Revoke .RU, .рф, and .SU (all Russian-managed ccTLDs) As the GAC member undoubtedly knows, that’s not how ICANN works. Barring a court/executive order in ICANN’s jurisdiction (and even then, it gets a bit sticky see https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014/11/13/dc-court-rules-that-top-level-domain-not-subject-to-seizure/), ICANN essentially treats ccTLDs as national sovereign resources. A third party, no matter how justified, requesting a change of this nature will not go anywhere. Simply put, ICANN is NOT a regulator in the forma sense, it is a private entity incorporated in California. The powers that it has are the result of mutual contractual obligations and it’s a bit unlikely the Russian government has entered into any contracts with ICANN, particularly those that would allow ICANN to unilaterally revoke any of the Russian ccTLDs.
I wonder how ICANN would react to ISO removing RU/RUS from ISO 3166-2/3. Rubens
Current thread:
- Re: ICANN Response (Re: Ukraine request yikes), (continued)
- Re: ICANN Response (Re: Ukraine request yikes) Brian R (Mar 03)
- Re: ICANN Response (Re: Ukraine request yikes) Sean Donelan (Mar 03)
- Re: Ukraine request yikes Matthew Petach (Mar 01)
- Re: Ukraine request yikes virendra rode (Mar 01)
- Re: Ukraine request yikes David Conrad (Mar 01)
- Re: Ukraine request yikes Matt Hoppes (Mar 02)
- Re: Ukraine request yikes Bruce H McIntosh (Mar 02)
- Re: Ukraine request yikes Miles Fidelman (Mar 02)
- Re: Ukraine request yikes Bryan Fields (Mar 02)
- Re: Ukraine request yikes virendra rode (Mar 01)
- Re: Ukraine request yikes David Conrad (Mar 01)
- Re: Ukraine request yikes Rubens Kuhl (Mar 01)
- Re: Ukraine request yikes David Conrad (Mar 01)
- Re: Ukraine request yikes Bryan Fields (Mar 01)
- Re: Ukraine request yikes Brian R (Mar 01)
- Re: Ukraine request yikes George Herbert (Mar 01)
- Re: Ukraine request yikes JASON BOTHE via NANOG (Mar 01)
- Re: Ukraine request yikes Rubens Kuhl (Mar 01)
- Re: Ukraine request yikes Fred Baker (Mar 01)
- Re: Ukraine request yikes John Levine (Mar 02)
- Re: Ukraine request yikes Jay Hennigan (Mar 02)