All Your Base Belong to Kentucky

I haven't been very happy with our domain and website host, at work. The website we have runs slow at times, and every time I check the server load, it's always high. We are on a shared server so I realize this is to be expected now and then, but all the time? Our e-mail also goes down quite a bit and the web based e-mail, until recently, took a minute or more to load the first menu. This is really a problem for a company that is in the news business. As you can imagine, there is all kinds of information we get through out the day. So if we can't get the details about a story, it can affect our TV or Radio news broadcasts.

I decided to look into other hosting companies. While I was doing that, I came across an intresting site, The Modern Domainer. And while I was there I read one the craziest legal decisions I have ever seen, in regards to the internet.

Apparently, Kentucky siezed 141 domain names. How they can do this, or even believe they have the power to do so is beyond me. And a circuit court has upheld the decision. This is a case I'm going to keep an eye on. You can read the whole story here.