[Discuss] CIRA pulls DNS upon request of politician

[Cy Schubert]

In message <6d91d5d80606030907y749e63c6x422a2355157969d7 at mail.gmail.com>, 
"Stev
en Kurylo" writes:
> > I have to agree. Maybe someone was offended, went to look up the owner
> > to contact them and discovered there was no "real" owner, reported it to
> > CIRA and they suspended it until those issues are dealt with. I may be
> > reaching, but had it be registered under a believable name with proper
> > address and number etc then it would not look fishy to me. Had they
> > wanted a level of anonymity there is a proper way to do that, you don't
> > register a fake name.
> >
> Except thats not what the article is saying
> 
> http://www.stephentaylor.ca/archives/000603.html
> 
> "I just got an email from the kids at youthforvolpe.ca. They received
> an email from their .ca registrar after they emailed them demanding
> which part of the Registrant Agreement that they were in violation of.
> It turns out that it had nothing to do with anonymous registration:"
> 
> "Yep, the reason given was because the registrar believed that the
> website somehow defamed Joe Volpe and the registrar believed that it
> might expose CIRA to a lawsuit."

Fair enough. Seems they are covering their butt. As I am going through some litigation right now, I can fully understand that.

On the other hand, how would a registrar somehow be responsible for the contents of any website? Maybe their lawyers know something I don't.



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