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Securing Your Domain Against Seizure: Where Is Safe to Register a Domain Name?

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Re: Securing Your Domain Against Seizure: Where Is Safe to Register a Domain Name?

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Post by kijin »

UAE and Palestine? Seriously? UAE has a questionable track record insofar as journalistic freedom is concerned. It ranks #112, below Liberia and South Sudan, in RSF's Press Freedom Index. What if one of the Emirs is offended by what I post on the site? Palestine ranks #153, not to mention you'd have to take Israel into consideration when you do anything Palestine-related.

Gandi.net is an excellent registrar, but I'm not sure about them anymore since they now operate in the UK and US as well. They even have a US-incorporated subsidiary.

Re: Securing Your Domain Against Seizure: Where Is Safe to Register a Domain Name?

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Post by ceol »

pessimism wrote: post #12

Speaking of gandi, a while ago, I ran into some problems logging in to their site, and I—finally—got this response from them by e-mail: Hello again pessimism, Our password field supports only passwords up to 16 characters at this time. All longer passwords are truncated. If you have any further questions, please let me know. Sincerely, [redacted] Tier 1 Tech Support Gandi US I checked in with @theharmonyguy who says…

Speaking of their support, I can see why some people were avoiding Gandi because of it. I'm trying to transfer a domain (from SWITCH, no less) and am having issues. I emailed them a week and a half ago and heard back the next day saying they were looking into it. Still nothing, so I sent another support email two days ago and haven't heard anything.

They have the most TLD offerings of any registrar I've seen (sans Go Daddy) so I'd hate to move away from them because of support issues, but I'm starting to understand the complaints I've read.

Re: Securing Your Domain Against Seizure: Where Is Safe to Register a Domain Name?

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Post by zyfo »

shingen wrote: post #18

A lot of this comes down to how badly the Feds want you. Another domain might buy you a thin buffer of protection, but if you're doing anything that really irks the US Government they'll go to great lengths to get you. They got the Swiss to burn a lot of their treasured banking privacy customs just to flush out off shore accounts. If you can get the Swiss to do that, you can get most any country to seize a local doma…

If you have particularly anti-US content, I would think .ru or .ch is a good bet.

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Post by barmstrong »

redthrowaway wrote: post #9

I 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.

The top comment from this thread a while back also suggested .is as a good options: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2451783

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

shingen wrote: post #18

A lot of this comes down to how badly the Feds want you. Another domain might buy you a thin buffer of protection, but if you're doing anything that really irks the US Government they'll go to great lengths to get you. They got the Swiss to burn a lot of their treasured banking privacy customs just to flush out off shore accounts. If you can get the Swiss to do that, you can get most any country to seize a local doma…

They only got the Americans who kept assets with "Swiss" banks (UBS or CS aren't traditional Swiss banks). Those who took the time to come to Schweiz and meet with the private banks were not touched.

Re: Securing Your Domain Against Seizure: Where Is Safe to Register a Domain Name?

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Post by kgo »

If you look at this as an uptime issue, it has the same answer as any other uptime issue. Redundancy.

A single server isn't good for uptime because when it dies you're screwed. At the next level, a single data-center only gives you so much uptime because if that data center goes down you're screwed.

Same thing here. Any single TLD isn't safe for any number of technical and political reasons. If you want to be safe, register multiple tlds with multiple entities so you have redundancy.

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