Anonymous webmasters on the .us Top Level Domain (TLD) are safe f...
Anonymous webmasters on the .us Top Level Domain (TLD) are safe from shutdown a few weeks. Attorneys for Robert Peterson, who runs Point-CounterPoint City (www.pcpcity.us), told us Thurs. a hearing on a preliminary injunction against NTIA, the Commerce Dept.…
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and .us registry operator NeuStar (WID Feb 1 p1) has been pushed off from today (Fri.) to Feb. 17. The govt. has agreed not to act meantime against registrars who haven’t taken down proxy websites in the .us TLD, lawyer James Houpt said. The case challenges the constitutionality of the NTIA’s rule that all .us site owners and registrants publicly disclose their names, home addresses, phone numbers and e-mail addresses. Peterson, whose site posts opposing views on controversial social and political topics, filed the suit in U.S. Dist. Court, Alexandria, Va. He alleges NTIA didn’t allow the public to weigh in on the rule, and he fears harm if the public Whois directory reveals his identity in connection with the site. Thousands of .us users have registered their sites by proxy and face disclosure or seeing their sites taken offline.