CDR: Re: core deletes vote-auction.com

[Declan McCullagh]

Some more details:
http://www.cluebot.com/article.pl?sid=00/11/03/1852255


On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 12:42:36PM +0100, Tom Vogt wrote:
> 
> it seems that core (i.e. the root servers) has deleted the entry for
> vote-auction.com - while the whois still works and their primary
> nameserver (in austria) still resolves, a regular lookup returns with
> "host unknown".
> 
> rumour has it that core carved in to demand by most possibly the feds.
> here in europe the sentiment today is that by doing so core has stopped
> being (if it ever was) an independent and purely technical instance and
> has entered the realm of politics. for example, no matter whether or not
> vote-auction.com is or is not illegal in the US, what business has a US
> court or lea in blocking the site for *me* (in germany) or, for that
> matter, the rest of the planet?
>