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Your TLD registry operator still technically remains fully in control of your records. I am actually surprised more of them have not abused their power so far.
by peanut-walrus 1y ago
Your TLD registry operator still technically remains fully in control of your records. I am actually surprised more of them have not abused their power so far.
- crote 1y agoMost TLD operators are non-profit foundations set up by nerds in the early days of the internet, well before the lawyers, politicians, and MBAs could get their hands on it. If you want to see what happens otherwise, just look at the gTLD landscape. Still, genuine power abuse is relatively rare, because to a large extent they are selling trust. If you start randomly taking down domains, nobody will ever risk registering a domain with you again.
- tptacek 1y agoThe most important TLDs are decidedly not non-profit foundations run by the nerds who set them up in the 1980s, and governments routinely manipulate the DNS for policy reasons.
- otabdeveloper4 1y agoYou don't actually need a domain with an ""important"" TLD. True story.
- akerl_ 1y agoWhat TLDs are today operated by non-profits? Looking at the list, I see a mix of commercial entities running them for profit and governments.
- otabdeveloper4 1y agoYou don't actually need a non-profit TLD either. Having a healthy competitive market for DNS services is good enough.
- akerl_ 1y agoReally? If .com or .io or some other popular TLD starts acting maliciously, what’s the route to handling that problem?