What's wrong with Switzerland? Norway? I know very little about Chad or Japan or Micronesia, perhaps they have great TLD rules as well? Heck, what even was the issue with the EU in the first place? I can think of GDPR as being seen as problematic in some constrained context, but privacy rules don't apply to TLD ownership so this reader is just left wondering.
https://www.eff.org/files/2017/08/02/domain_registry_whitepa...
Then only the TLDs are listed which "only avenue for domain takedown is through a local court, rather than through an arbitrator order or trusted notifier".
Additionally countries that are part of the 5 eyes, 9 eyes or 15 eyes, see picture at the top of the article, are out, too.
For the EU part, I think it has to do with the EU tendency of surveillance laws. On the one hand the EU claims privacy and security as a main goal and the other hand they try to backdoor E2E encrypted messengers.
> Additionally countries that are part of the 5 eyes, 9 eyes or 15 eyes, see picture at the top of the article, are out, too.
That makes a lot more sense for excluding countries. They still made a bit of a leap with saying all of the EU is bad, we're more than 15 countries, but let's presume the 'eyes' countries cover the remaining TLDs that had this local court thing and that explains the author's selection.
That is, if local court is the only standard you want to go by. Another thing the article leaves as an exercise for the reader is whether any of those arbitration places have favorable rules compared to even the courts of Iceland for all I know.
ogTLD and ngTLD aren’t real names afaik. I use them for the original gTLDs and the new gTLDs.
Our WHOIS entry now has our registrar’s version of “Domains by Proxy” as the contact, despite the ccTLD not allowing Whois privacy. (And it was free.)
holder.............: Private person
registrar..........: Private person
The registrar's name (that's me) used to be visible but that changed with stronger privacy requirements, soon after GDPR.
European trademark & hate speech laws (plus dns blocking of various domains associated with pornography or piracy) probably still apply so .is could be a free-er choice.
Any reason why I shouldn't register the domain on isnic directly? Are there benefits to registering the domain via namecheap (or other registrar), apart from getting access to their support?
Mileage may vary I guess.
And it's just something about a very aggressive marketing strategy like Hover's that doesn't give me a very secure feeling about their product.
Process was pretty straightforward and I was able to add my DNS records just fine. Do you know if they have any safeguards against domain transfers? I don't see any settings related to that, other than to transfer my domain.
It turns out that even in p2p networks if there's one one dominant development group then that group owns your domains. The Tor Project decided that tor v2, with all it's potential exploits, could not exist alongside tor v3 and so all the tor v2 domains will disappear to the official tor clients this october 26th.
I don't own my .onions so I won't be making v3 sites.
Huh.
Got a screenshot or citation for that? Very curious, never used facebook.
Given the exploits in the v2 onion sites, (suitably modified HSDirs being able to discover them and whatnot) the writing has been on the wall since well before then and it shouldn't be a surprise that they're going away.
You're not buying domains but instead are buying the TLD itself and then create domains on the TLD.
I haven't read up on it that much but their pitch of "stop renting the thing in front of the TLD, own the actual TLD" is pretty cool.
ENS has way more adoption and 3rd party support. I think it's our only hope of overthrowing the incumbents (existing centralized DNS system)
name -> IP address in a blockchain feels like one of the ideal use cases of it.
Maybe a premine started by a commercial entity would have enough financial backing to get started on it.
Are you aware of any relevant precedent for this?
Austria (.at)
Germany (.de)
Iceland (.is)
Russia (.ru)
So I don't necessarily disagree; but there is absolutely no justification actually given for elevating Iceland, and including that would seem to be half the value of the blog post.
Also, OpenNIC TLD's are indeed TLDs, Tor's .onion is not really the same.
This does not seem accurate to me. The Wikipedia [1] page for .org says it is managed/controlled by the Public Interest Registry and not Verisign.
I recall this because of the scummy deal the PIR was trying to do to sell .org to a PE firm.
I was unable to set up my domain with Cloudflare's name servers because you need to register the domain first and the registration process requires that the domain is served by the name servers you enter. I ended up selecting "parked" instead and should be able to switch it later.
If we are to go with the laws of the land, the 14th amendment states:
> No state shall...deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
This means that ICANN, itself, is subject to all the laws of the jurisdiction of its location (municipal, county, state, and Federal).
If I understand ICANN's role correctly, they control the entire WWW (DNS, IP address assignment, infrastructure, etc.), so everyone on the WWW is subject to the ICANN jurisdictional limitations.
Am I missing something?