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What would buying even mean in this sense? Even countries don't "own" their ccTLDs, but ICANN has made considerable efforts to outline policies that go "we real
by judge2020 2y ago
What would buying even mean in this sense? Even countries don't "own" their ccTLDs, but ICANN has made considerable efforts to outline policies that go "we really need to treat ccTLDs like the countries own them to avoid tensions over internet namespaces". That's why most gTLD rules don't apply to ccTLDs.
Countries "own" their ccTLD in the sense that they (or most) have the military prowess to defend their usage of their ccTLD if ICANN, or the servers at root-servers.net, were to stop resolving TLDs appropriately.
- BobbyTables2 2y agoDNS is then a weapon of mass destruction
- NewJazz 2y agoThe root servers hold the real power, and IIRC over 50% are operated in the US, with many of them being operated by the US military and others educational institutions. I can only assume that the US has tolerated varied use of ccTLDs for the sole purpose of avoiding a competing alternate DNS root zone becoming more prominent.
- croemer 2y agoBut root servers aren't a democracy, are they? If US root servers went bonkers, people would just use different root servers. Doesn't matter whether it's 50% or 90% that are in US if they can be ignored?
- NewJazz 2y agoYeah that's the point. If US acted up, and pressured other operators to follow suit, the root zone could split up. They don't want that to happen.
- preciousoo 2y agoI’m sure the NSA does their best to make sure the US doesn’t politically fuck that up