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What happens to country specific TLD's in a war involving that country?
- jmkni 8y agoI’m surprised that question hasn’t been closed as off-topic!
- kcolford 8y agoNah, instead we migrated it to super user, the site for everything programing adjacent.
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- ljw1001 8y agoIDK, but I've been anxious AF for a chance to use Afghanistan's, and it doesn't seem to be actively administered.
- tutts 8y agoI once looked into whether it was possible to get a ".ck" domain name, for juvenile and obvious yet potentially humorous domains. It turns out that that's Cook Islands' TLD, and they don't allow direct use of it... instead, they've done the same thing as the UK did, and only allowed domains under ".co.ck".
- empyrical 8y agoAnd if you want to make a domain name that makes use of that suffix in a crude way, you won't be allowed to: > Domains considered profane will not be considered on any level, and the application will be dissolved with the applicant being notified, and future requests for the same domain name will be ignored. '.ck' domains are monitored on the web, on a regular basis for profanity on the Internet if it is found to be doing so, or if the site is deemed inappropriate, the domain will be terminated without notification or refund. If they were that worried about the crude name possibilities, I wonder why they didn't go with ".com.ck" like some other gTLDs did?
- beobab 8y agoWhich made me chuckle for very similar reasons.
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- anewhnaccount2 8y agoNathan Barley dot cock
- justincormack 8y agoIt was trashbat.co.ck which sadly seems to be down right now.
- walrus01 8y agoIt is actively administered but you need to physically communicate with the Ministry of Communications, in Kabul, to register a domain. This for the most part requires being present in Kabul. There are a number of Afghan domestic corporations that use .AF. The zone files are still edited by hand. Example of live .AF companies: http://www.jobs.af/ http://www.jobs.af/ https://www.roshan.af/en/personal/ https://www.roshan.af/en/personal/ http://etisalat.af/ http://etisalat.af/
- wruza 8y agoIn-house DNS is an obvious and convenient service to locate hosts on your network. But take it world-wide, and I don’t think it is a greatest idea that could work. Names are random and volatile, and there is no sensible geography that you may use to look for alternatives or to extend your experience. IRL when you want to party, you go to club streets and active places. When you want to buy, you go to big stores. When you want to rest, you look for a park. If you’re into something big and incompatible (like religion, subculture or language), you go to “your land”. But DNS cannot give you that — it void-separates similar and recognizable locations. It is so tech-y and not humane. This void is abused by many to push you to where you’ll spend your value and have nowhere else to go. Of course, implementing that can be a rock hard task with many real-world complications and abuse prevention, but I would like to open my browser and not see the same fckng nine plates that I visit everyday, instead viewing the live, high-precision public map of the internet that is worth exploring endlessly. TLDs (if any) and country control in that scheme could be designed completely politics irrelevant. (inb4: TMDH, SL, MC, MMORPG etc)
- olivermarks 8y agoBit.ly is a good example: .ly was the Libyan dns until the political changes there. Bit.ly is now bitly.com .ly is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Libya. In 2011, the bit.ly address was set to redirect to bitly.com. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitly Therefore relying on using convenient ccTLD suffixes from third word states as part of a western world url might not be a great idea longer term depending on political change and hostile actions.
- Rjevski 8y agoAnyone willing to fix the Wikipedia page with the proper URL (https://bitly.com/ https://bitly.com/)? Looks like it’s been vandalized and a spam URL put in its place, and the mobile editor doesn’t work, asks me for a captcha over and over again..
- glastra 8y agoSomeone changed it to trim.li (which apparently is another URL shortening service). I've tried changing it to the proper URL, but Wikipedia is preventing me from saving my changes because bitly.com is in their blacklist, as it is a URL shortener. I couldn't help but chuckle.
- jstanley 8y agoThat doesn't really show the point you're trying to make. What I gather from reading the wikipedia article is that they registered bitly.com after the Libyan government seized a .ly domain that was incompatible with their ideology. Nothing to do with the war. And that decision is a bit questionable anyway. It's quite likely that more .com domains have been seized by the US government than .ly domains seized by the Libyan government.
- jacksmith21006 8y agoYou do NOT need war to have problems. Look at France taking the domain away from the American that owned it for years without any compensation. "France Seized the Domain France.com from Its Long-Time Owner. Now He's Suing" http://fortune.com/2018/04/30/france-domain-name-france-com/ http://fortune.com/2018/04/30/france-domain-name-france-com/
- kuschku 8y agoAs did the US when they seized Megaupload.com from a German, living in New Zealand, who had broken neither German nor New Zealandish law (at least that time).
- Rjevski 8y agoI’m actually surprised what happened to the SK (Slovakian) TLD mentioned in that answer - it seems to have been taken over by fraud, then the fraudulent new owner of the TLD sold out to some company abroad and they’re now trying to sell out again, and apparently a contract prevents the state from doing anything? How is that possible? Why can’t the government just ask ICANN to delegate the TLD to a legitimate entity and tell the greedy fraudulent one to fuck right off?
- PaulKeeble 8y agoIt doesn't even have to be a war. There are plenty of people in the United Kingdom who own .EU domains and won't be able to renew them after Britain leaves the union since buying and renewing them requires the owner to have an address inside of the union. IIRC the newspapers reported it impacted 10s of thousands of addresses.
- jwilk 8y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16714581 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16714581
- otoburb 8y ago>>[...] requires the owner to have an address inside of the union. This would bode well for programs like the Estonian e-residency[1] initiative as I believe they also provide an EU address, although it might mean having to legally transfer ownership of the .eu domains from UK entities to the Estonian entity if any businesses are thinking of going through with this. [1] https://e-resident.gov.ee/ https://e-resident.gov.ee/
- coldtea 8y ago>This would bode well for programs like the Estonian e-residency Or not, as 1000 other entities and countries will pop up with similar solutions
- otoburb 8y agoThe Estonian e-residency program launched in December 2014[1], so it's about 2.5 years old. I'd imagine that if there was a really compelling reason to set up a similar program other EU countries would have prioritized and launched. To your point, perhaps Brexit will push a few more EU countries to follow Estonia's lead, although I'm not sure how successful a program could be without at minimum government endorsement, if not outright involvement. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Residency_of_Estonia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Residency_of_Estonia
- Salamat 8y agoThe US has the power to influence the conflict by cutting them off the internet: Cutting off the internet of Syria in 2011 and planting viruses in Iranian networks https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/17/us/politics/cyber-command-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/17/us/politics/cyber-command...
- shakethemonkey 8y agoThe KW domain was removed after Iraq invaded Kuwait. [1] [1] https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains/68GjTG8QtIU/spAgICUkmcwJ https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domain...
- magissima 8y agoI hope the British Indian Ocean Territory doesn't go to war!
- coldcode 8y agoA question I want to know is what happens if the country splits into multiple countries?
- zeveb 8y agoThat's why I think what we actually need is domain certificates on the SPKI model, where k of n countries must agree that an entity has the right to use a domain. Anything that the U.S., U.K., Russia, China, Eritrea, Chile, Mexico, Canada, Germany & Chad agree on is probably true enough, despite what one might think of each of those states individually.