[...] to move domain names to domain name registrars located outside the United States. As I’ve written before, I don’t think this is a good idea. For a number of reasons, I think the United States is one [...]

[...] week I wrote about a growing movement for transferring domain names away from United States registrars to other countries. I argued [...]

You appear to have misunderstood my point.

It has NOTHING to do with courts outside the U.S., or their relative stupidity.

U.S. courts *alone* are the danger to domain owners worldwide because THEY can force U.S. registrars/Verisign to do their bidding with biased local laws, similar to Kentucky’s.

Courts outside the U.S. don’t have that right.

If ‘world’ TLDs such as com/net/org etc. are to remain valuable as *world* domains outside the U.S. then U.S. states must not have the power to steal domain assets at their whim.

It’s not a new proposal but my comment about moving the authority to the U.N. is about the only way we all can be protected from your state laws and their future avarice.

“What’s to keep an Australian court from making a stupid decision?”

Let’s be honest here. The US courts make stupid decisions all the time. Much more frequently than other first world courts do.

The legal system in the US *encourages* false claims and frivolous lawsuits with little consequences. Since 2001, your rights and freedoms have been eroded tremendously.

The bottom line is, if you are going to move your business [domains] out of the US, pick a jurisdiction with a solid legal system. Do your research, it’s not hard to find these places.

I’ve been doing business offshore for 12 years. I mean real business, not paper companies hiding from the tax man.

My experience is that the British based legal system is the most predictable and sensible in dealing with all matters whether physical property or internet properties. So that gives you choices like British Isles, Cayman, Bermuda, Bahamas, BVI, Australia, Gibraltar, hell even Canada.

Stay away from places where the legal system is political based like Latin America.

- Richard