If you learn about Kim/ble Dotcom/Schmitz's history, then this is zero surprise. He is a "shower", a "taker" and since he likes to sue people who badmouth him I cannot say something about lying and cheating.
Indeed, he is a fraudster and an insult to every business man. I'd bet that the next post on HN is called "Kim Dotcom starts own NIC" or "Kim Dotcom purchased an own TLD".
But yes, this would mean that domains provided for this new standard TLD wouldn't be accessible if you use openNIC.
Or maybe the dns servers pointed by /etc/resolvers could be smart enough to tell if the requested domain is on openNIC or on the standard TLD, and prefer the openNIC one if there are two with the same names (this really shouldn't happen and is in no one interest, but, well...).
It would be pretty difficult to get enough bandwidth and power to a place like Sealand. You'd probably need an undersea cable to have a big enough pipe to the Internet, and whatever country that runs to can cut you off...
That, and if you're in international waters and you annoy a country enough, you probably don't have your own army or anything to stop them invading you.
So what about the fact that me.ga hasn't actually done anything illegal ..yet..
It appears that this whole issue has blown up into an absolutely ugly power game. Everyone's bullying everyone and it goes to show that international law, national law, any law, really don't have much meaning when the stakes are high enough.
There goes civilization. =/
(I'm referring to the part where the minister was pressured to seize the domain.. the hackers.. well no comment on them..)
Why would they, it's a civil matter surely, some form of breach of contract and the correct recourse is to the courts.
It also depends why the company have done what they've done. Given his previous history it's entirely reasonable that they've decided they don't wish to deal with him (having not realised it was him originally - I'm sure they don't check every domain registration) and have terminated their contract based on some perfectly reasonable clause or other.
Dotcom has the right to do what he wants within the law, however other companies don't have to deal with him if they don't want to and given his past have plenty of reasons to think that way.
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[ 3.8 ms ] story [ 69.7 ms ] thread"To our gabonese friends: have no fear, me.ga is in safe hands, the megaman @KimDotcom has no control over the me.ga domain name. We do."
Also interesting:
"@KimDotcom offered us 1% of Megabox in exchange of http://me.ga that is 1% of nothing in exchange of the almighty Me!"
[1] https://twitter.com/o
Edit: Article from Jan 2011 shows different owner of @O. http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/01/twitte...
Not that I think he is a strategic genius, but this is pretty basic
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Dotcom
German Wikipedia has more http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Schmitz
> "He himself is an industry, only here to pollute"
https://twitter.com/a https://twitter.com/b https://twitter.com/c
But yes, this would mean that domains provided for this new standard TLD wouldn't be accessible if you use openNIC.
Or maybe the dns servers pointed by /etc/resolvers could be smart enough to tell if the requested domain is on openNIC or on the standard TLD, and prefer the openNIC one if there are two with the same names (this really shouldn't happen and is in no one interest, but, well...).
That, and if you're in international waters and you annoy a country enough, you probably don't have your own army or anything to stop them invading you.
It appears that this whole issue has blown up into an absolutely ugly power game. Everyone's bullying everyone and it goes to show that international law, national law, any law, really don't have much meaning when the stakes are high enough.
There goes civilization. =/
(I'm referring to the part where the minister was pressured to seize the domain.. the hackers.. well no comment on them..)
Surely the US government will step in and ensure the rule of law is upheld?
It also depends why the company have done what they've done. Given his previous history it's entirely reasonable that they've decided they don't wish to deal with him (having not realised it was him originally - I'm sure they don't check every domain registration) and have terminated their contract based on some perfectly reasonable clause or other.
Dotcom has the right to do what he wants within the law, however other companies don't have to deal with him if they don't want to and given his past have plenty of reasons to think that way.