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

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50 pointsneotek22 comments

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..)

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?

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.

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

It is very strange. Look at their website http://ome.ga. Seems almost fake.

The name on the profile is "Onymous". I bet somebody hacked both @O and me.ga. Notice the oldest tweet is only two hours.

Edit: Article from Jan 2011 shows different owner of @O. http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/01/twitte...

Hmm the .ga tld was owned and managed by a subsidiary of Vivendi so this isn't really too surprising.

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

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.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Dotcom

German Wikipedia has more http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Schmitz

Listen to this man here. Who ever hacked the site got it perfectly right when they were saying:

> "He himself is an industry, only here to pollute"

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".

This is why I'm hesitant to get another tld -- specifically .ly. Great example case.

It would be the perfect situation to promote open TLDs of openNIC.

Thing is, what happens if someone buys a TLD via ICANN that's already a TLD on OpenNic?

Well, I see that the preferred way to access openNIC is to set resolvers ( https://github.com/GoTux/Bash/blob/master/onic.sh ), so those could simply ignore the new 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...).

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.

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.

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.

The twitter username is "o"? How the hell?

It's not that special. Nice to have though.

https://twitter.com/a https://twitter.com/b https://twitter.com/c

Iceland?

The domain, not the site.

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