Texas wins court order to suspend domain name for violating age-verification law

Post by Bender » Sat, Jul 18, 2026, 1:52 PM UTC

jmclnx wrote: post #68

Well the site does not present Texas in a good light. Their .gov site presents me with this. Looks like they need to worry about their own site instead of worrying about out of state sites. >Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead > Firefox detected a potential security threat and did not continue to www.texasattorneygeneral.gov. If you visit this site, attackers could try to steal information like your passwords, ema…

    fp www.texasattorneygeneral.gov

    Testing via IPv4:
    texasattorneygeneral.gov.
    104.18.152.79
    104.18.94.91
    sha1 Fingerprint=D7:6B:D1:D8:58:5B:16:4A:0B:D8:41:5F:FF:4E:DA:2F:FA:90:4F:4D
    sha256 Fingerprint=94:4F:66:36:A5:AA:AF:17:3A:FD:9C:B6:F0:79:95:17:62:1C:8A:B8:B3:44:61:DD:61:BB:C1:26:C6:77:4F:0F
    notBefore=Jul  4 12:45:24 2026 GMT
    notAfter=Oct  2 13:45:15 2026 GMT

    Testing via IPv6:
    texasattorneygeneral.gov.
    # ( no IPv6 here )

Post by inigyou » Sat, Jul 18, 2026, 2:01 PM UTC

walrus01 wrote: post #270

inigyou wrote: post #264

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.com is American.

But should it be? Verisign having control over it is a weird historical artifact of the early days of the internet.

Post by throwatdem12311 » Sat, Jul 18, 2026, 2:06 PM UTC

jzb wrote: post #70

throwatdem12311 wrote: post #52

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So if I don’t do business in Texas, have no operations in Texas or otherwise deal with Texas in any way a state court should just be able to order a company to suspend my whole domain? I’m Canadian and Texas courts have zero authority over me so they can f*ck off.

But they do have authority over the domain registrar, so you’re vulnerable there no matter where you live. I don’t agree with the premise of age verification, but of course a prosecutor would go after the assets they can reach if enforcing local laws. They’ve done this for years when it comes to copyright infringement.

Post by 15155 » Sat, Jul 18, 2026, 2:31 PM UTC

BLKNSLVR wrote: post #268

15155 wrote: post #33

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When you create the infrastructure, you make the rules. If a party doesn't like those rules, they are free to create their own replacement infrastructure and obtain global buy-in. ccTLDs already exist and their respective countries have sovereignty over those TLDs: the UK can disappear any .uk domain name it wants from the global internet. The .com TLD is American, and is therefore subject to American legal proceedin…

Yeah, that whole setup stinks. It actually gives a great use case to alternative DNS and decentralized infrastructure. Multiple Internets over Internet time. Sadly. Some damage can't be routed around.

Post by Henchman21 » Sat, Jul 18, 2026, 3:58 PM UTC

tstrimple wrote: post #206

MyMemoryfails wrote: post #171

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Damn, I didn't even considered this angle. Lot's 18+ items dont actually require age verification online. Yet porn/socials are being subjected to it. Just shows what priorities are.

Guns are good and equal freedom. Boobs are bad and lead to degeneracy. I hate this place.