Anna's Archive loses .org domain after surprise suspension • Hacker News Board

Re: Anna's Archive loses .org domain after surprise suspension

#101

Post by goku12 » Mon, Jan 05, 2026, 2:16 PM UTC

Well! Not really a surprise, is it? We knew that DNS censorship was coming sooner or later. The real surprise is that it lasted so long. X509 (TLS) PKI is also probably being abused right now. We know how differently the administration sees services like these that are actually beneficial to humanity. Choosing to rely on services like DNS and PKI exclusively for the function they provide is a very bad idea going forward for us normies.

We should have considered these centralized and corporate driven core infrastructure components as interim measures while more independent alternatives were being developed. We have a few different alternatives right now. Can't we just choose one and switch over? (something not based on blockchains.) Something like GNU Name System, may be?

PS: They will probably block the IP if Server hold/DNS block is not useful anymore. That's a different problem though.

Re: Anna's Archive loses .org domain after surprise suspension

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Post by coldtea » Mon, Jan 05, 2026, 2:19 PM UTC

flipped wrote: post #75

reorder9695 wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Using Tor browser and running a Tor node are different things, by using the browser you are not contributing to the network, you're just accessing it. If you're worried about someone using your network connection for cybercrime you shouldn't run a Tor node (although there is significantly less risk with a relay node), but you shouldn't worry about using regular Tor.

> by using the browser you are not contributing to the networK That's false to some extent. Tor's promise comes from it's vast population of users. The more users it has, the better it is to improve everyone's anonymity. So in a way, even by using it, you are helping Tor network. And please, save the "criminal" bs (meant for the original comment).

This response stretches "pedantic correction" to new levels.

Re: Anna's Archive loses .org domain after surprise suspension

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Post by dmantis » Mon, Jan 05, 2026, 2:24 PM UTC

hypeatei wrote: post #100

yapyap wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pretty sure the whole concept of i2p is that every user also contributes to the network, which is why the config

I'm not sure why that would require more friction or why my comment was downvoted: i2p is harder to use than Tor. Adoption will be hindered by it, even in tech circles. I want to fire up an executable and maybe click through one prompt but not have to remember all the configuration steps the next time I want to use i2p.

They work on that, https://geti2p.net/el/blog/post/2025/10/16/new-i2p-routers

The current focus are new rust and go implementations, but embedding lib for applications is also in the roadmap.

I also agree on hindrance. I don't understand why they don't provide a simple docker-compose at least for daemon deployment for immutable management with controlled scopes. There is an image in the dockerhub, but no proper instructions. People have to spend several hours to ensure that everything works correctly.

Re: Anna's Archive loses .org domain after surprise suspension

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Post by AstroNutt » Mon, Jan 05, 2026, 2:26 PM UTC

turblety wrote: post #6

Seems like great publicity for Anna's Archive. I've heard an increasing amount about Anna's Archive over the last 12 months. It has popped up a lot. I wonder if they've seen their traffic spike a lot.

Definitely. I never knew about it. Now it's bookmarked.

Re: Anna's Archive loses .org domain after surprise suspension

#105

Post by Matl » Mon, Jan 05, 2026, 2:32 PM UTC

xvector wrote: post #88

tasuki wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Trying to understand nostr, I looked up its Wikipedia page... > In 2024, in an article reporting on the project's funding, Business Insider claimed to have identified fiatjaf, and had found two websites previously published by this person to disseminate the work of Olavo de Carvalho, a far-right conspiracy theorist. That... seems extremely irrelevant. If fiatjaf is contributing something useful and significant to the…

Definitely a smear campaign, ironically one that seems to be organized by left-leaning individuals on Wikipedia, Business Insider, etc. Which is bizarre to me because aren't these the people that would want the ability to disseminate information in the face of fascism? They are attacking their own side (again.) When will idealists learn that this is not the way?

> left-leaning individuals

Here we go again.

As a 'left-leaning individual' it's funny because if you look up anti-war left leaning outlets and such on Wikipedia, they don't tend to have exactly glowing entries on there. Wikipedia and the other outlets described as 'left-leaning' are neoliberal institutions. Believe me that there's no love for these on the left.

When it's convenient for smears, neoliberals are left but then at other times it's the communists etc. In other words, 'left-leaning' is a grab bag of what one doesn't like these days, rather than any really meaningful group.

Re: Anna's Archive loses .org domain after surprise suspension

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Post by monerozcash » Mon, Jan 05, 2026, 2:32 PM UTC

goku12 wrote: post #86

monerozcash wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That may be, but you can't just keep going to the same US court for warrants.

As long as there is centralization, there is always an avenue for abuse with money. The DNS root itself is heavily influenced by a group of allied nations, through the ICANN if I'm right. That can be used to exert pressure on TLD registries, including ccTLD registries. Of course, that cannot be used for surgical control single domains like Anna's Archives'. But DNS blocking is an old technique by now. The copyright c…

For what it's worth, that doesn't seem to ever have worked.

Re: Anna's Archive loses .org domain after surprise suspension

#107

Post by cramcgrab » Mon, Jan 05, 2026, 2:36 PM UTC

Don’t copy that floppy!

Re: Anna's Archive loses .org domain after surprise suspension

#108

Post by GordonS » Mon, Jan 05, 2026, 2:37 PM UTC

jeroenhd wrote: post #67

ishanjain28 wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes. Genocide.live is under clientHold status by namecheap and they are trying to transfer it out.

I don't know much about the story or that site, but I can just open it from my end? Whois information also doesn't seem to show any special status.

After publicly shaming NameCheap on Twitter, NameCheap backed down a little. They've still de-platformed genocide.live, but released the DNS name so the owner could transfer it out. IIRC, they are using a "free speech" provider in Estonia now.

Re: Anna's Archive loses .org domain after surprise suspension

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Post by lxgr » Mon, Jan 05, 2026, 2:41 PM UTC

quietsegfault wrote: post #66

flipped wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Better have a .onion. It's almost impossible to seize and you control the keys. YOU ARE THE OWNER, not some for-profit registrar. Onions should be the default, it's secure (you own the keys), decentralized and far better than relying on CAs for encryption.

I’ll never use Tor because I have no idea what the Tor client is actually doing. Is it enabling someone to use my network connection for cybercrime without my knowledge? No thanks.

As others have mentioned, that's not what Tor does by default. Just because you don't know how it works doesn't mean that it's generally unknowable.

And conversely, it's enough to visit a random website running WebTorrent or just a plain HTTP DDoS attack to possibly "use your connection for cybercrime".

Since RFC 3514 unfortunately never gained traction, distinguishing good, bad, and illegal traffic remains difficult.

Re: Anna's Archive loses .org domain after surprise suspension

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Post by marcosdumay » Mon, Jan 05, 2026, 2:42 PM UTC

Matl wrote: post #105

xvector wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Definitely a smear campaign, ironically one that seems to be organized by left-leaning individuals on Wikipedia, Business Insider, etc. Which is bizarre to me because aren't these the people that would want the ability to disseminate information in the face of fascism? They are attacking their own side (again.) When will idealists learn that this is not the way?

> left-leaning individuals Here we go again. As a 'left-leaning individual' it's funny because if you look up anti-war left leaning outlets and such on Wikipedia, they don't tend to have exactly glowing entries on there. Wikipedia and the other outlets described as 'left-leaning' are neoliberal institutions. Believe me that there's no love for these on the left. When it's convenient for smears, neoliberals are left b…

> Wikipedia and the other outlets described as 'left-leaning' are neoliberal institutions.

What exactly do you think 'neoliberal' means?

I do agree Wikipedia is not 'left-leaning', mainly because 'right' and 'left' are bullshit names that don't mean anything. But it doesn't even have the power to act in a situation that would make it neoliberal.