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Best TLD that can't be taken down by US/etc?

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Re: Best TLD that can't be taken down by US/etc?

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Post by dsl »

Outside the reach of the US pretty much means countries with hostile diplomatic relations. Any safety you might be afforded by other countries (say New Zealand or Sweden) depends on if you are worth someone in DC picking up a telephone. A quick check over at the State Department website gives us a few candidates:

  Belarus - Nope. Most of the DNS infrastructure is hosted in US friendly countries (Poland, Russia, etc.)
  Burma (Myanmar) - Nope. Getting a domain requires being friendly with the government.
  Cuba - Nope. Requires physical presence in Cuba.
  Democratic Republic of the Congo - Nope. Registration open to anyone, but DNS servers are in the US(!), Sweden, Republic of South Africa.
  Iran - Maybe. Generally open for registration, and one of the more tech savvy sanctioned countries. Don't mention politics, religion, porn, or any other sensitive topics and you should be ok.
  Libya - Nope. Democracy is on it way, please allow 6-8 weeks for shipping.
  North Korea - Nope. Must have presence in country for registration. All infrastructure and management actually takes place in Thailand.
  Syria - Maybe. Hosted and managed in country, but a shitstorm is on the horizon.

Re: Best TLD that can't be taken down by US/etc?

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Post by mhansen »

lancewiggs wrote: post #20

.nz justly prides itself on a robust, cheap and fair disputes resolution service. It's based in New Zealand, a country which is regularly ranked in the top three least corrupt in the world, and currently number 1. InternetNZ is an open membership charitable society that is the delegated country manager for .nz and has the objective to strive for an open and uncapturable internet. They delegated the day to day managem…

FYI to people considering .nz: WHOIS Privacy is not allowed in .nz.

I'm very happy with my .nz domain, but it's lame that I have to have my home address in a publicly accessible database.

Re: Best TLD that can't be taken down by US/etc?

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Post by taf2 »

mhansen wrote: post #22
lancewiggs wrote: post #20

.nz justly prides itself on a robust, cheap and fair disputes resolution service. It's based in New Zealand, a country which is regularly ranked in the top three least corrupt in the world, and currently number 1. InternetNZ is an open membership charitable society that is the delegated country manager for .nz and has the objective to strive for an open and uncapturable internet. They delegated the day to day managem…

FYI to people considering .nz: WHOIS Privacy is not allowed in .nz. I'm very happy with my .nz domain, but it's lame that I have to have my home address in a publicly accessible database.

use a PO box? unless there are some downsides, like ssl cert issuers not issuing for PO box?

this looks easy enough: https://poboxes.usps.com/poboxonline/search/landingPage.do

I'd assume other countries provide something similar?

Re: Best TLD that can't be taken down by US/etc?

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Post by snatch_backside »

dangrossman wrote: post #17
mattparlane wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's the normal DNS Time-To-Live: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_to_live#DNS_records Iceland's servers have to host the records, so low TTLs would increase their traffic and therefore load.

@ChuckN : FYI, you have been hellbanned for the past ~2 years. Your comments are automatically marked [dead] and hidden.

Well, that just makes me want to see them. How do I do that?

Re: Best TLD that can't be taken down by US/etc?

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Post by dangrossman »

snatch_backside wrote: post #24
dangrossman wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

@ChuckN : FYI, you have been hellbanned for the past ~2 years. Your comments are automatically marked [dead] and hidden.

Well, that just makes me want to see them. How do I do that?

Turn on 'showdead' in your profile.

Re: Best TLD that can't be taken down by US/etc?

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Post by biturd »

dangrossman wrote: post #17
mattparlane wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's the normal DNS Time-To-Live: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_to_live#DNS_records Iceland's servers have to host the records, so low TTLs would increase their traffic and therefore load.

@ChuckN : FYI, you have been hellbanned for the past ~2 years. Your comments are automatically marked [dead] and hidden.

How can you tell, how do you know?

Re: Best TLD that can't be taken down by US/etc?

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Post by justindocanto »

joejohnson wrote: post #8

.onion https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-hidden-service.html.en

.onion is not a TLD. I've seen it classified as a "psuedo TLD" but either way.... dot onion would be a horrible substitute to anything mentioned in the comments. the user base for tor/oninion is catastrophically smaller and the requirements to view a .onion site reaches a little further than the general public can take. think of how many people don't even realize there's VERSIONS of internet explorer and have never upgraded. cringes

Re: Best TLD that can't be taken down by US/etc?

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Post by justindocanto »

i dont have any technical evidence to back this up but i feel like .ru domains tend to be pretty resilient to US take downs. i've seen so many blatantly illegal websites and/or hacking scripts hosted on .ru domains that seem to never go away. granted, i'm sure they also trigger spam filters like crazy.

.nz i could see catching on. there's got to be a much more 'friendly' TLD though. nz doesn't feel as generic as com/biz/net/org

who controls .mobi?

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