the court deciding that a company (Microsoft) should act as the police (or in this analogy, a bouncer) is still terribly short-sighted, especially when that company has been historically accused by the DOJ of attempting to form varying monopolies.
a capable government should not be in the habit of contracting valuable state-needed cyber-defense to private companys, as the 'keys to the kingdom', in this case domain records, should not be in the hands of a company that can benefit privately but rather a state-ran agency which employs proper check and balances.