Securing Your Domain Against Seizure: Where Is Safe to Register a Domain Name?
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#2Interesting article.
Shame he did not cover or mention directly the highly popular .EU domain which has no particularly strong requirements.
While individual EU countries may fall under the NATO/ECHELON agreements under varying degrees of importance (Germany for example it is likely highly irrelevant), internet infrastructure tend to be well-protected at the EU level.
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#3How about .eu? An obvious choice for any European company planning to expand beyond national borders.
EURid European Registry for Internet Domains) is a non-profit organisation established by the European Commission is a consortium of three European ccTLD operators: DNS Belgium (.be), IIT-CNR (.it) and NIC-SE (.se).
Am I missing something?
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#4I think the article forgot its own criteria half way through...
> Countries with military mutual defense agreements (NATO, etc).
And then he continues to name both Sweden and Norway...Norway is a NATO-member (though not part of the EU, just the EEA), and while Sweden is not a NATO-member, it is an EU member state, which means it is involved in EU-defence just as well...(and even though Iceland's economy has recovered well, they are also a NATO-member) Norway is definitely not militarily neutral, since they have troops in Afghanistan.
He also doesn't give a definition for what a "small"-sized or a "medium"-sized country is...
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#5How about .eu? An obvious choice for any European company planning to expand beyond national borders. EURid European Registry for Internet Domains) is a non-profit organisation established by the European Commission is a consortium of three European ccTLD operators: DNS Belgium (.be), IIT-CNR (.it) and NIC-SE (.se). Am I missing something?
Lots of online poker sites have been switching to .eu
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#6I've got a .co on namecheap now. No controversial plans but curious as to how safe it is.
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#7I think the article forgot its own criteria half way through... > Countries with military mutual defense agreements (NATO, etc). And then he continues to name both Sweden and Norway...Norway is a NATO-member (though not part of the EU, just the EEA), and while Sweden is not a NATO-member, it is an EU member state, which means it is involved in EU-defence just as well...(and even though Iceland's economy has recovered…
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#8I think the article forgot its own criteria half way through... > Countries with military mutual defense agreements (NATO, etc). And then he continues to name both Sweden and Norway...Norway is a NATO-member (though not part of the EU, just the EEA), and while Sweden is not a NATO-member, it is an EU member state, which means it is involved in EU-defence just as well...(and even though Iceland's economy has recovered…
Yes, I would not have thought countries gets much smaller than Iceland! :)
Small countries are a poor choice for many reasons, not least because too much can change too quickly and it does not require much capital (monetary or political) to capture such a state. Though, obviously, they can be useful for redundancy.
That said, it could be the author meant the list more as optimization criteria rather than a firm checklist. In which case, both the strongly-independently wealthy Norway and the politically liberal and neutral Sweden, are not bad choices.
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#9I take issue with the author's criticism of .is. They've recently told most of the world to go fuck themselves, and one of their members of parliament is a Wikileaks spokesperson. I'm thinking they're pretty pro-freedom.
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#10Non-centralized approaches like Namecoin will be more likely offer DNS security than the establish approached.