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**audubon** · 03-06-2008, 04:23 PM

Here's the U. S. Treasury Dept. press release: http://usinfo.state.gov/wh/Archive/2...08-868923.html

excerpts:

"TOUR & MARKETING INTERNATIONAL LTD. caters to U.S. citizens by asserting that it is not only Cuba's number-one agency for American travelers, but also that it is able to serve all travelers -- regardless of whether they have a Treasury-issued license to travel to the sanctioned country. In addition, the travel agency emphasizes that it is mandatory for U.S. citizens to use the company's online payment system."

"TOUR & MARKETING INTERNATIONAL LTD. has five offices in Cuba, one in Spain, one in England and one in the British Virgin Islands. The company's principal and manager are either domiciled in Cuba or nationals of Cuba. TOUR & MARKETING INTERNATIONAL LTD. is the official tour operator representing the Government of Cuba's Agencia Receptora Ecotur S.A., one of Cuba's largest local agencies."

So they are saying that T&M encouraged violating U.S. law, and that's why the websites were cut off.

Also note that this is from December 2004, and eNom acted in October 2007, according to this article: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/04/us...0A&oref=slogin

I noticed that the domains mentioned in the article, cuba-hemingway.com, cuba-havanacity.com, ciaocuba.com, and bonjourcuba.com, all appear to have valid DNS servers (ns1.digitalpanorama.net and ns2.digitalpanorama.net), yet none of those domains resolve. www.digitalpanorama.net itself does resolve, apparently to a website operated by Mr. Marshall.

The IP addresses (24.244.141.113 and 24.244.141.114) of the nameservers are registered to "Cable Bahamas" in the Bahamas. Based on the NXDOMAIN response, it appears that these servers simply don't have records for the unresolving domains. So can someone explain why Marshall couldn't just add the records? (cuba-guantanamo.com uses those servers and resolves just fine.)

Update: I see why they don't resolve -- the status is ClientHold, which prevents inclusion in the zone file.

03-06-2008, 04:23 PM	#13 (permalink)
audubon Platinum Lifetime Member Last Online: Today 04:58 PM iTrader: (0) Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 55 DNF$: 221 Location: Audubon, PA Country:	Here's the U. S. Treasury Dept. press release: http://usinfo.state.gov/wh/Archive/2...08-868923.html excerpts: "TOUR & MARKETING INTERNATIONAL LTD. caters to U.S. citizens by asserting that it is not only Cuba's number-one agency for American travelers, but also that it is able to serve all travelers -- regardless of whether they have a Treasury-issued license to travel to the sanctioned country. In addition, the travel agency emphasizes that it is mandatory for U.S. citizens to use the company's online payment system." "TOUR & MARKETING INTERNATIONAL LTD. has five offices in Cuba, one in Spain, one in England and one in the British Virgin Islands. The company's principal and manager are either domiciled in Cuba or nationals of Cuba. TOUR & MARKETING INTERNATIONAL LTD. is the official tour operator representing the Government of Cuba's Agencia Receptora Ecotur S.A., one of Cuba's largest local agencies." So they are saying that T&M encouraged violating U.S. law, and that's why the websites were cut off. Also note that this is from December 2004, and eNom acted in October 2007, according to this article: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/04/us...0A&oref=slogin I noticed that the domains mentioned in the article, cuba-hemingway.com, cuba-havanacity.com, ciaocuba.com, and bonjourcuba.com, all appear to have valid DNS servers (ns1.digitalpanorama.net and ns2.digitalpanorama.net), yet none of those domains resolve. www.digitalpanorama.net itself does resolve, apparently to a website operated by Mr. Marshall. The IP addresses (24.244.141.113 and 24.244.141.114) of the nameservers are registered to "Cable Bahamas" in the Bahamas. Based on the NXDOMAIN response, it appears that these servers simply don't have records for the unresolving domains. So can someone explain why Marshall couldn't just add the records? (cuba-guantanamo.com uses those servers and resolves just fine.) Update: I see why they don't resolve -- the status is ClientHold, which prevents inclusion in the zone file. Last edited by audubon; 03-06-2008 at 05:29 PM.