How are those sites avoiding icann rules?

[anarchoi]

ok i'm still new to the domain name world and i'm not too familiar with all of the registars and their policys

i have a few questions

- is ICANN the top authority of all domains names? Do they have power over all and any domain names, and they can disable domains which are breaking laws?

i have came accross soooo many illegal sites, and most of them are hosted with popular registars like godaddy, yahoo, or PublicDomainNames. but they are still on the web.......... why???

Say a site is breaking the law, the owner of the ingriged copyrighted work can file a complaint either to icann, or to the registar, and logically the domain name would be taken down, right?

then there's something i don't understand...

how do all the illegal sites violating the copyright laws, from warez sites to torrent trackers like thepiratebay keep their domain name up and running?

Another example would be illegal vbulletins or invision boards.... Vbulletin is known for being aggressive against hackers and they are also known for taking down a LOT of websites using unregistered version of their software. However, there are still many sites known as using unregistered versions, and these sites never get turned down.

The most famous example would probably be www.vbteam.info and www.vbteam.org, not only they are using unregistered version but they are also giving nulled versions, and a lot of illegal hacks. However, one of the domain is registered with GoDaddy and the other one is registered with PublicDomainNames. I have written to BOTH REGISTARS, and both registars answered me they would disable any domains using unregistered versions of vbulletin.


Also, another rule is to not steal company names and add diffamatory words, right?? Then how a site like www.****microsoft.com and registered with GoDaddy can exist, since like 10 years????


Someone explain me please!

 

[accent]

Too many questions, I can't answer all. Piratebay is in Sweden and is legal by their laws - I think the owner enjoys messing with stuck-up lawyers more than any other part of his gig.

Names like --sux .com and so forth - that do not promote themselves as being the original company - are protected in the US under free speech, elsewhere it is not so clear.

Most of the rest comes under the chaos theory - the internet is still chaos and people get away with stuff until they are stopped, which is close to never. ICANN is really ICANN(t) - search this forum for RegisterFly for further information.

 

[Dave_Z]

Someone explain me please!

The answers to your questions can be found via the link below:

http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-06mar07.htm

While it's not necessarily bad to expect a lot, possibly unrealistic expectations
tend to create otherwise avoidable and maybe unnecessary issues.

 

[labrocca]

ICANN are not a law enforcement agency. They are a governing body that controls domains. That's the short answer.

 

[jberryhill]

If you like to play the game Monopoly, you'll notice that the game is published by Parker Brothers. In fact, Parker Brothers wrote the rules that are included in every box of Monopoly.

Now, I was playing a game of Monopoly the other day with some friends of mine, and we got into an argument over whether the money paid to Community Chest is supposed to go to whoever lands on Free Parking.

So, instead of arguing about it with each other, we called up Parker Brothers, and they wouldn't send someone out to our game and decide who was right.