ICANN and Verisign Proposal Allows Any Government to Seize Domain Names

Back in the mid to late 00s, it was relatively easy for an individual to report a site to ICANN for infringing on various things, where upon there was a process to deny, but typically if involved in spam, it was lost money for the spammer.

However to move to allowing a govt, or some authoritative body ... to simply take ownership and control ... the wording is too open and feels more like a great (old school) troll, but I'm falling for it as to me it sounds more like they've buckled to the copyright cartel with an unknown amount of money involved.

Since the language is transfer and not lock or just seizure, any site set up to be critical, runs the risk of being swooped on and replaced with a honey pot.

Thus far only .net proposed.

Of course there are plenty of services that use .net. Email would be first that sprang to mind and I don't think email protocol has changed that much, if a bad actor has the domain, it's not hard to set up to receive emails - it's been more than 20 years for me but surely it'd be a huge security nightmare for email services, any minute a foreign entity saw a benefit of landing a particular amount of current email traffic before the ruse was made public, it could happen.

I guess there's still time for the public to comment on this proposal.