Interesting read and a lot I didn't know.

I think the naming convention and ICANN are fine, but US should not be able to shudder a Canadian company, regardless of where the domain is purchased, so long as the servers and services are not located in US. US should of had to contact Canada and work within their laws.

Otherwise, US is simply using a back-door policy to do what SOPA was intended to do. Its censoring content and this gambling site was not a terrorist or file thief.

I have always said .com should be for international sites and USA sites should be .co.usa

This would make more sense, but good luck getting anyone to change it. Through control of ICANN and VeriSign, America essentially retains watchdog control over the internet, and asking them to give that up would be like asking America to give up its nukes: not gonna happen.

This is just something that isn't going to change, sadly.

Amazing how this isn't in working order.

Yea other countries all have their own Internet Country code if you want you can look at them here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_domains#Country_code_top-level_domains turns out the USA actually uses .us forgot they were all 2 letters lol 

I am saddened to see our government using this power so cavalierly, but after all sites CAN just register under a different country instead of .com. (Right?)

I also think that despite the USA's ongoing anti-piracy hysteria, I'd still rather see only them have this kind of power than every nation having it. The great majority of them would be even worse.

Wow they shut down bodog? It's pretty legit, at least in Canada, I used it for years and it even gets radio advertisements. I guess USA has different laws regarding online gambling...

Ah, bodog.ca still works, good.

Bodog is still up, it is just the .com site that's down.

But yeah, I didn't know the US had power over those suffixes. The company maintaining those should go to Switzerland or Luxembourg or something.