Legal jurisdiction of domain name

[nsood3]

I was wondering how a website is determined to be under the law of any particular country. Say for example a website's domain name is registered in France, the servers are in India, and its operated/managed from the United States. If the website ever got into legal trouble which laws of what countries would it be subject to?

[PAUL-B]

I'd have thought it reasonable to presume that the rigistrant's country of origin is the country whose jurisdiction would apply, but that doesn't seem to be the case. According to 2 US-cases, .com domains are 'geographically' based in Virginia, US. For more details, read: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/09/04/ill_see_your_domain_name/

If this is indeed the case, the registrar's country of origin would seem to be the country whose laws would apply, i.e. for .uk domains - UK, and so on.

Hope that helps...