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> Perhaps I'm misunderstanding the situation but I think this rather highlights the awkward position the world allows itself to be in: to let the USA govern the

> Perhaps I'm misunderstanding the situation but I think this rather highlights the awkward position the world allows itself to be in: to let the USA govern the entirety of the domain space. You are misunderstanding the situation. The US does not govern the entirety of the domain space. Nations have full control over their own ccTLDs, and many (e.g. China and India) absolutely do fully exert that control by censoring outright domains they don't agree with. And there are plenty of other gTLDs that are not run out of the US either, e.g. Radix is a Dubai-based company that runs .site, .online, .store, .space, .fun, .website, .tech, and more, Minds + Machines is a British VI-based company that runs .vip, .work, .fit, .london, and more, etc. All of these enforcement actions against Iran were able to happen because the registries and/or registrars in question are US-based companies. Of course governments are able to enforce their laws on companies based on their own soil, but that's also all the US is able to do without the cooperation of other countries.

tialaramex 6y ago
> a British VI-based company If some outfit claims to be based in the Virgin Islands, you should take that with a large dose of salt unless it's a hotel or something. The BVI is a tax haven. In practice so far as I was able to tell this is a Californian company which for tax reasons is notionally owned by a company in the BVI.
- CydeWeys 6y ago
  Fair point. There are others though, including particularly many gTLD registries operating out of China.
hetspookjee 6y ago
Thank you for the correction. I wasn't aware of the other options. It still feels a bit wrong though for the USA to solely have the governance on a ubiquitous domain as .com
- CydeWeys 6y ago
  Perks of inventing the Internet I guess? There's a reason other countries have generally tended to prefer use of their own ccTLDs.

tialaramex 6y ago

> a British VI-based company If some outfit claims to be based in the Virgin Islands, you should take that with a large dose of salt unless it's a hotel or something. The BVI is a tax haven. In practice so far as I was able to tell this is a Californian company which for tax reasons is notionally owned by a company in the BVI.

CydeWeys 6y ago
Fair point. There are others though, including particularly many gTLD registries operating out of China.

hetspookjee 6y ago

Thank you for the correction. I wasn't aware of the other options. It still feels a bit wrong though for the USA to solely have the governance on a ubiquitous domain as .com

CydeWeys 6y ago
Perks of inventing the Internet I guess? There's a reason other countries have generally tended to prefer use of their own ccTLDs.