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Domain registrars do not exist in a vacuum. In order for a registrar to be able to make this kind of guarantee, they also need it from /their/ contractors. Spe
by tsukikage 3y ago
Domain registrars do not exist in a vacuum.
In order for a registrar to be able to make this kind of guarantee, they also need it from /their/ contractors. Specifically, for a registrar to stay in business, ISPs and payment processors should not be able to refuse them service (or, if they are also an ISP in their own right, other ISPs should not be able to refuse connection/peering arrangements).
Otherwise, they're stuck between a rock and a hard place: either they kick out the undesirables to appease their suppliers, or the whole business is forced to fold and cannot serve anyone at all.
A few more steps in this chain and your free market democracy isn't looking so very free any more.