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Kim Dotcom's new Me.ga site barred by Gabon

50 points| neotek | 13 years ago |theregister.co.uk | reply

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[+] ashray|13 years ago|reply
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..)

[+] pbhjpbhj|13 years ago|reply
So basically if you buy a .ga domain this USA based company can take your money [via their subsidiary] and violate your contract at will?

Surely the US government will step in and ensure the rule of law is upheld?

[+] neotek|13 years ago|reply
Interestingly enough, it doesn't appear that Kim owns me.ga anyway - it redirects to a twitter profile[1] which claims:

"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

[+] epa|13 years ago|reply
It is very strange. Look at their website http://ome.ga. Seems almost fake.
[+] nthitz|13 years ago|reply
Hmm the .ga tld was owned and managed by a subsidiary of Vivendi so this isn't really too surprising.
[+] ramblerman|13 years ago|reply
It is surprising in the sense that kim dotcom tweeted this into the world without any strategic foresight.

Not that I think he is a strategic genius, but this is pretty basic

[+] fourstar|13 years ago|reply
This is why I'm hesitant to get another tld -- specifically .ly. Great example case.
[+] oelmekki|13 years ago|reply
It would be the perfect situation to promote open TLDs of openNIC.
[+] kyriakos|13 years ago|reply
OpenNIC idea is quite interesting but I can't see how it will ever become mainstream. I'd love though to see the domain monopoly end.
[+] dutchbrit|13 years ago|reply
Thing is, what happens if someone buys a TLD via ICANN that's already a TLD on OpenNic?
[+] SeanDav|13 years ago|reply
I am not up to speed on latest developments, but Sealand (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Sealand) seems like a good solution to this type of problem.
[+] stephen_g|13 years ago|reply
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.

[+] rorrr|13 years ago|reply
The domain, not the site.