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Question: why do courts hit DNS providers instead of domain registrars?
by xeonmc 1y ago
Question: why do courts hit DNS providers instead of domain registrars?
- gruez 1y agoEasier to get jurisdiction over them. Google and Cloudflare has datacenters all over Europe. Meanwhile for the ivesoccer.sx domain, the registry is located in Sint Maarten and the registrar is a Danish company.
- thenthenthen 1y agoThe internet is really not that different from shipping companies. Maybe some insights there?
- natebc 1y agoYou're on to something here. They are fighting pirates too!
- TZubiri 1y agoInteresting. But dns registrars don't operate in the importing country. E.g: the .com registry is operated by verisign is in US Jurisdiction. If I wanted to block a website in Argentina it wouldn't make sense to ask Verisign to delete a website, I would ask the court to order a dns block to local ISPs registered as local companies
- Bender 1y agoQuestion: why do courts hit DNS providers instead of domain registrars? Most of the eggs are in one basket. Same as trying to get individual ISP's to censor something, reaching out to each of the hundreds of registrars is time consuming and prone to being ignored depending on the country. If on the other hand a government can get cooperation from even 3 of the biggest "free" resolvers then its a big win for them. It's also easier to monitor people when they choose to use corporate resolvers like Cloudflare, Google, OpenDNS, etc...