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One of the reasons why I chose a .is domain for my personal blog. A few gotchas though: registering a .is domain takes a while (think days/weeks instead of minutes) and your TTL needs to be high. http://fr.anc.is
What does TTL stand for in this context?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_to_live#DNS_records
Iceland's servers have to host the records, so low TTLs would increase their traffic and therefore load.
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One of the reasons why I chose a .is domain for my personal blog. A few gotchas though: registering a .is domain takes a while (think days/weeks instead of minutes) and your TTL needs to be high. http://fr.anc.is
I don't remember having a high registration time for my .is domain, although its possible I just forgot. The only gotcha I would mention if you go through isnic is that you need to have your own DNS servers, and they have to be registered with ISNIC with a NIC handle (and some other things?). I just use Linode's DNS servers (where I host it), and haven't had any issues.
I like the idea of .ru or other TLDs under sclerotic court systems.
The fear with .ru would be that somebody could 'buy' your domain with corrupt influence.
I would say .ru for 'anything goes' or .ch for 'I know I am in the right and I think a truly independent court would defend me'
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What does TTL stand for in this context?
It's the normal DNS Time-To-Live: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_to_live#DNS_records Iceland's servers have to host the records, so low TTLs would increase their traffic and therefore load.
Maybe the one from Iceland. You'll need a country that doesn't bow easily to US, but also doesn't have its own laws for easily taking down domains either. You might find blockaid.me useful, too.
ISNIC, in charge with *.is, sez: "Under what circumstances would ISNIC close or delete the domain wikileaks.is based on the contents of their website? The answer is simple, such an action would require a formal court order from an Icelandic court. ISNIC has never been handed such a verdict about any .is-domain during its close to 25 years of history." http://www.isnic.is/en/news/view?id=204
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ISNIC, in charge with *.is, sez: "Under what circumstances would ISNIC close or delete the domain wikileaks.is based on the contents of their website? The answer is simple, such an action would require a formal court order from an Icelandic court. ISNIC has never been handed such a verdict about any .is-domain during its close to 25 years of history." http://www.isnic.is/en/news/view?id=204
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What does TTL stand for in this context?
It's the normal DNS Time-To-Live: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_to_live#DNS_records Iceland's servers have to host the records, so low TTLs would increase their traffic and therefore load.
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InternetNZ is an open membership charitable society that is the delegated country manager for .nz and has the objective to strive for an open and uncapturable internet.
They delegated the day to day management of .nz to www.dnc.org.nz, who also run the disputes service (http://dnc.org.nz/story/drs-home), while the register itself is delegated by InternetNZ to www.nzrs.net.nz. This structure was set up to ensure that these sorts of issues would be resolved appropriately.
I note that the new gTLDs (.whatever) will need to use ICANN's standard dispute resolution process, which is convoluted, lengthy and expensive. I do not know how these will fare under SOPA et al.
(I'm an elected Councillor of InternetNZ. http://internetnz.net.nz)