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Old 09-23-2008, 01:38 PM  
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Owning a .com is US property subject to US law and thus seizure and garnishment. The .com registry is controlled by Verisign GRS in Virginia, US. It has been previously adjudged that domain jurisdiction lies both with the Registrar OR Registry. Even if non-US companies owned those domains and even if they were registered with a French or Indian ICANN registrar, they could still be seized from Verisign with a US state or federal court order.
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