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what are the domain names that American government cant steal - .com . net. org domains are regulated by the U.S. it seems, what about .me domains, .to , .in d

what are the domain names that American government cant steal - .com . net. org domains are regulated by the U.S. it seems, what about .me domains, .to , .in domains - i have heard that .me domain is also regulated from the US although it is a Montenegro domain

chopsueyar 15y ago
It comes down to which specific registrars will listen to the US government when Uncle Sam tells the registrar to point the TLD dns entries for the domain to ICE's dns server. I do not know what happens when multiple registrars update the TLDs with conflicting information? Is that allowed? Can ICANN intervene and force a TLD update, bypassing a registrar?
- JoachimSchipper 15y ago
  ICANN can, in theory, "steal" any TLD. It would cause a humongous shitstorm, though, and I'm not sure that all root server operators would cooperate.
- zbowling 15y ago
  with ICE, they go straight to Verisign with ICANN consent and take the domain at the root without involving the registers. The way it works is that registrars for .COM and .NET work with Verisign who runs on the root name servers for those TLDs. It used to be Internic which was operated by Network Solutions, which was bought by Verisign but then NS was later spun back off, but Verisign kept the root name servers. .ORG was given to another organization at some point to manage.
- dedward 15y ago
  If it were notices sent to registrars, yes (talking .com, for instance). A US based registrar is bound by US law. A UK based registrar is not. In these cases they are going after the registry itself (Verisign) which is completely under US law and the individual registrars have no involvement whatsoever.
tomjen3 15y ago
.ru domains? I have trouble believing that Russia will take orders from the US. You could also try .de - Germany has pretty good protection against arbitary government intervention these days. Once upon a time I would have suggested France, but it appears that while they don't have much respect for the United States they do love the copyright companies. China maybe?
- guard-of-terra 15y ago
  Russia seized one domain (torrents.ru, which immediately became rutracker.org) It's a mistery why, but if they did it once they can do it again. I won't trust Germany resisting huge amounts of external pressure, and I won't trust China, period. So it's inherently a gamble.
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eli 15y ago
It wouldn't surprise me about .me. .cc is actually run by Verisign: http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/30/tvshack/ http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/30/tvshack/

chopsueyar 15y ago

It comes down to which specific registrars will listen to the US government when Uncle Sam tells the registrar to point the TLD dns entries for the domain to ICE's dns server. I do not know what happens when multiple registrars update the TLDs with conflicting information? Is that allowed? Can ICANN intervene and force a TLD update, bypassing a registrar?

JoachimSchipper 15y ago
ICANN can, in theory, "steal" any TLD. It would cause a humongous shitstorm, though, and I'm not sure that all root server operators would cooperate.
zbowling 15y ago
with ICE, they go straight to Verisign with ICANN consent and take the domain at the root without involving the registers. The way it works is that registrars for .COM and .NET work with Verisign who runs on the root name servers for those TLDs. It used to be Internic which was operated by Network Solutions, which was bought by Verisign but then NS was later spun back off, but Verisign kept the root name servers. .ORG was given to another organization at some point to manage.
dedward 15y ago
If it were notices sent to registrars, yes (talking .com, for instance). A US based registrar is bound by US law. A UK based registrar is not. In these cases they are going after the registry itself (Verisign) which is completely under US law and the individual registrars have no involvement whatsoever.

tomjen3 15y ago

.ru domains? I have trouble believing that Russia will take orders from the US. You could also try .de - Germany has pretty good protection against arbitary government intervention these days. Once upon a time I would have suggested France, but it appears that while they don't have much respect for the United States they do love the copyright companies. China maybe?

guard-of-terra 15y ago
Russia seized one domain (torrents.ru, which immediately became rutracker.org) It's a mistery why, but if they did it once they can do it again. I won't trust Germany resisting huge amounts of external pressure, and I won't trust China, period. So it's inherently a gamble.
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eli 15y ago

It wouldn't surprise me about .me. .cc is actually run by Verisign: http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/30/tvshack/ http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/30/tvshack/