@Rak 227536 wrote:
Agreeing with Alex, focus on money laundering and payments. The US has always had the problem of how to stop internet gambling, especially since the internet is borderless, the only option for the US was to tell its banks to stop the transactions.
If you’re not in the US and haven’t yet seen what the 5 domains have on them
The troubling issue here, is the US government going directly to ICANN and changing the DNS on the domains. Does this mean that any domain, regardless of country or extension – can also be controlled this way?
Alex hit the nail on the head. Prosecution is very costly and time-intensive — the U.S. govt only likes to prosecute when they know there is a considerable amount of money at stake and their changes of winning are high. Going after the average John Smith affiliate doesn’t meet the previous criteria I mentioned, and IMO it would be the same as the DOJ going after online poker players.
Regarding ICANN, I believe they are a U.S. based organization, so the DOJ can easily seize any TLD that ICANN is responsible for with an indictment in hand.