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

Post by elithrar » Thu, Mar 08, 2012, 2:10 AM UTC

bo1024 wrote: post #45

larrys wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agree. And all of this is ridiculous anyway. A non-issue for the vast majority of startups who want to do something in the US. Think you're going to get funding and grow your company with a foreign TLD doing something that the US government might disapprove of? Not to mention the fact that the entire OP is based on the way things are TODAY and that assumes it's even accurate. Which of course it's not (just taking you…

> Think you're going to get funding and grow your company with a foreign TLD doing something that the US government might disapprove of? The web's biggest sites right now (e.g. YouTube and Facebook) are doing things the U.S. government doesn't approve of. They haven't been shut down ... yet ... but Megaupload has, and what's the functional difference between what Megaupload does and what YouTube does? My point is jus…

Post by sdfjkl » Thu, Mar 08, 2012, 2:55 AM UTC

kzrdude wrote: post #52

I would go with anything .ch

Post by sneak » Thu, Mar 08, 2012, 3:21 AM UTC

drats wrote: post #17

I think a distributed .alt where people can have a "backup" of their domain would be nice. gun.io with gun.io.alt running concurrently on the distributed system. It would be a nice reference to the alt.* Usenet split in response to attempts to control it. The underlying technology and how to arrange it is another question though. Edit: Mcantelon's reference elsewhere in the thread to namecoin looks like a good start…

Post by Raphael » Thu, Mar 08, 2012, 4:33 AM UTC

Mizza wrote: post #40

kijin wrote: post #21

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…

I thought the same thing initially, but that's what the person I was interview said. He is the most knowledgeable person I have ever talked to about this sort of thing, as he provides administration services to many, many TLDs: http://www.pch.net/technology/anycast.php

Post by bo1024 » Thu, Mar 08, 2012, 6:02 AM UTC

elithrar wrote: post #51

bo1024 wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Think you're going to get funding and grow your company with a foreign TLD doing something that the US government might disapprove of? The web's biggest sites right now (e.g. YouTube and Facebook) are doing things the U.S. government doesn't approve of. They haven't been shut down ... yet ... but Megaupload has, and what's the functional difference between what Megaupload does and what YouTube does? My point is jus…

> but Megaupload has, and what's the functional difference between what Megaupload does and what YouTube does? The difference, at an organisational level, is that MegaUpload is run by a very small team and is "foreign". Google/YouTube, on the other hand, is an American company employing a number of Americans. The majority of voters probably care little about MegaUpload (even if they should care). But you can be sure…