Considering that this is the second time in less than a week that a company has had their domain taken off line at the Registrar level (https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/14/telegrams-shortlink-domain-is-back-online-after-day-long-suspension/) I do think there is a legitmate technical concern here, though I'd argue it is far from new.
It is a scenario that most companies don't account for, but depending on the type of business you are in, it is a very real concern and you should have a response plan in place. allan On Sunday, July 19th, 2026 at 9:08 AM, Andy Ringsmuth via NANOG <[email protected]> wrote: > Can we keep politics and personal opinions separate and independent of the > technical aspects of the issue at hand (if there are any)? Per the NANOG list > info page: > > "Appropriate topics include: routing; broad-based engineering > problems/issues/solutions; outages; performance measurement; evolving > wide-area technologies; exchange points; traffic engineering; operational > experience; ISP security; and trouble ticket systems." > > Is there an actual legit technical issue here that needs discussion or > solving? > > ---- > Andy Ringsmuth > [email protected] > > Love others, encourage others, help others. > > > On Jul 19, 2026, at 6:05 AM, Kevin Tillery via NANOG > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > A Texas court has suspended the .com domain of a Dutch porn site which > > doesn't have any business presence in Texas, because it doesn't comply with > > Texas rules about porn (which are extremely onerous): > > > > https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/attorney-general-ken-paxton-secures-landmark-legal-victory-lock-pornographic-website-domain-and > > > > Clearly the US is not fit to manage top-level domains (other than .us of > > course) even though it ended up with them by historical accident. It worked > > for a while but now it's not working any more. Has anyone come up with any > > plan to solve this and make the DNS more neutral? > > > > As a first step I'd think about experimenting with a DNS resolver that > > would move all US TLDs to subdomains of .us. However that obviously would > > just break the current internet for whoever is using this resolver, at > > least due to widespread use of vhosts. > > > > Kevin > > _______________________________________________ > > NANOG mailing list > > https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/55UTA3Q4NIN5455KV7TAY7YTMC7ZUENI/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > NANOG mailing list > https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/EJC2UZCJFBHZKWIRLRP35AOT6R6C63BW/ _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/FARPULLLVBYECCOSDWV65FMNYDHO37MA/
