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Anna's Archive loses .org domain after surprise suspension

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

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I always wonder why sites like Anna's Archive (and a lot of torrent tracker sites) don't provide .onion addresses. I imagine a significant proportion of their traffic comes from the Tor network, and onion addresses don't have this same weakness that regular DNS addresses have as they're just the key. I can't imagine if they have the servers already up and running, running an .onion address is that much more work cons…

Onion/Tor has horrendous latency and throughput. Latency is bearable, but dial-up speeds for downloading can drive one insane.

This wasn't even true 10 years ago...

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

#292

Funny how HN is usually ripe with folks crawling out of the woodwork to defend IP ownership as a fundamentally important principle, both on moral and economic grounds. Yet, as of 08:37:36 MST Monday, 5 January 2026 there isn't a single comment on this thread complaining about Anna's IP theft. Don't get me wrong, that makes me VERY happy, I am a firm believer that the very notion of IP ownership needs to die a horribl…

Possibly because context matters to many people.

AA is not stealing every byte of data they can get in order to make billions of dollars, collect personal data about people, and then sell that for even more money.

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

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post #276

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> There is. No. In UK, many an unregistered association is a non-profit e.g. sports clubs, volunteer groups, societies.

In UK there is simply no such status as "non-profit", so technically none of what you listed are "non-profit" organizations. These are unincorporated associations, that, by the way, can be making profit (but that would be on shaky grounds, since common law makes it hard not to fuck up, being as vague as it always is). However, there is a "charity" status in UK, and you'd have be a registered organization to obtain it…

> In UK there is simply no such status as "non-profit"

Incorrect.

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https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/non-prof...

noun [ C ]

uk /ˌnɒnˈprɒf.ɪt/ us /ˌnɑːnˈprɑː.fɪt/

(also not-for-profit)

an organization whose aim is to make money for a social or political purpose or to provide a service that people need, rather than to make a profit

(Definition of non-profit from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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That's Cambridge UK.

> However, there is a "charity" status in UK, and you'd have be a registered organization to obtain it.

Again incorrect.

See https://www.gov.uk/setting-up-charity

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

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Is this an abuse of the ServerHold status? Was this the same mechanism used to delist a Gaza video archive recently? > This status code is set by your domain's Registry Operator. Your domain is not activated in the DNS. > If you provided delegation information (name servers), this status may indicate an issue with your domain that needs resolution. If so, you should contact your registrar to request more information.…

Used to work for a registry. Registries do not just arbitrarily serverHold things they don't like. Even in blatant abuse cases, they'll reach out to the registrar to clientHold it or delete it instead. I suspect this came from a court order. The only time I remember serverHolding things were from court orders or other legal requests(FBI/DHS/etc). Though the latter would often just ask for the nameservers to be change…

Not my experience. My personal .us domain was placed in serverHold in April 2025, after Godaddy Registry sent my registrar an email including the following:

"If we do not receive a response and the abusive content remains active, the referred domain will be suspended (-ServerHold-) twelve (12) hours after this notification, to limit any potential damage."

Yes, only 12 hours' notice. And this was in response to what looked like an automated scan, with a screenshot of a directory listing showing some files with (accurate) modification times in 2011. This would not have passed more than a quite cursory human review. And there is no chance that anyone was using the files, as they were at an unused path (which happened to be exposed via directory listings).

(How do I know that the files haven't been infected without my knowledge? Because I checked, but also because I know why they were flagged as malicious. The files contain an exploit, and will try to exploit your browser if you open them. But the exploit only works on 2011-era iOS! The iOS version numbers are right there in the filenames! The files are not real malware, but part of a jailbreak, JailbreakMe, that installs software of your choice on your phone… if your phone is an iPhone from 2011. I continue to host the jailbreak on purpose, for the sake of a handful of people that still use these devices. I guess you can call it retrocomputing. This particular subset of files was unused though.)

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

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post #295

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Used to work for a registry. Registries do not just arbitrarily serverHold things they don't like. Even in blatant abuse cases, they'll reach out to the registrar to clientHold it or delete it instead. I suspect this came from a court order. The only time I remember serverHolding things were from court orders or other legal requests(FBI/DHS/etc). Though the latter would often just ask for the nameservers to be change…

Not my experience. My personal .us domain was placed in serverHold in April 2025, after Godaddy Registry sent my registrar an email including the following: "If we do not receive a response and the abusive content remains active, the referred domain will be suspended (-ServerHold-) twelve (12) hours after this notification, to limit any potential damage." Yes, only 12 hours' notice. And this was in response to what l…

.US is a bit of an oddball, at least compared to gtlds. The US DoC puts rather strict requirements on the registry under contract, including this but also spot checks that owners are US citizens, and makes it the responsibility of the registry to take action on it.

Those scans are automated but supposed to have human-in-the-loop, though that doesn't really mean much either. Unfortunately, once the process starts, receiving no response means an automatic suspension.

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

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Why should wikipedia fold? Can any country put any legitimate pressure against them for just listing a domain.

Countries can pressure them for many reasons, fairly or not. Under pressure, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales interfered with a page about the war in Gaza (though I don't know th outcome of that).

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

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I remember swapping lists of IP addresses of FTP servers ~1990 when there was no DNS/Domains in Germany working on the internet.

There was very little DNS in the early days. I just had big notepads full of IPs next to the computer. Especially for the pirate sites.

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

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This response stretches "pedantic correction" to new levels.

It's literally outline by Tor Project team, if you care to even read from official sources.

This here response continues to stretch "pedantic correction" to new levels.

What's "literally outlined" I'd guess is that the utility of the Tor network increases with adoption which nobody ever doubted.

What is discard is the tenuous over-stretched argument in this thread regarding fears of legality, that went like this:

GP: 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.

P: 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.

As if that what was discussed...

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

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post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This response stretches "pedantic correction" to new levels.

Why? The utility of any network grows with the number of participants, even that of inherently asymmetric networks that strictly distinguish "producers" and "consumers". (More eyeballs make the network more valuable to content providers.) This might not be how courts determine culpability of redistributing any potentially illegal content, of course.

>This might not be how courts determine culpability of redistributing any potentially illegal content, of course.

Which is precisely the point of this discussion.

Might as well argue "By protecting the environment you're supporting the drug trade, because people that a climate catastrophe would wipe out will be able to be drug users".

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