Ya know, I'm all in favor of unity and all but it would have really helped us make the argument that "we" (as in the USA) are doing a good job managing "The Internet" if "we" hadn't been seizing and shutting down domains in foreign countries that someone in the US disagrees with. That particular set of actions is coming back to hurt us.
Now if we could get the Congress to pass a law that says the US registrars cannot take down a domain of an offshore company unless there is a judicial order to do so, from the host country that would go a long way to making amends. But that would not really impress the content folks.
Do you have examples of ccTLDs being taken down? The .com/.org/.net/etc TLDs are designated to the US. Sure, they are the most common TLDs out there, but they are under US jurisdiction.
I'd be more concerned about how the domain seizures have happened basically at the behest of the content industries, with no (appropriate amount of) due diligence done by government officials.
.com/.org/.net are not desginated to the US. They are generic top-level domains operated by a US company. Go use .us if you want a ccTLD for the US. Or .edu/.gov/.mil which are sponsored TLDs for use by the US.
Yes, that's where they get their legal basis. It's a red herring in this argument though. Many countries would rather the US didn't have carte blanche over the three most critical TLDs. Seizing foreign domains on the basis that their registrar is under US jurisdiction is a sign of bad faith, and probably a diplomatic faux pas.
Now if we could get the Congress to pass a law that says the US registrars cannot take down a domain of an offshore company unless there is a judicial order to do so, from the host country that would go a long way to making amends. But that would not really impress the content folks.