Allan, I agree with Andy: this isn’t a technical concern. Frankly I feel like your title was a bait, causing people like me working on real dns security to read your post , although I believe unintentionally. It isn’t a technical issue since nobody said all companies must use the com tld. If there’s sufficient demand surely someone will set up an alternative tld out of the US jurisdiction . So… problem solved? No need in new technology?
And sorry if I’m grumpy today, it has been one of these days…. Amir -- Amir Herzberg Comcast professor of Security Innovations, Computer Science and Engineering, University of Connecticut Homepage: https://sites.google.com/site/amirherzberg/home `Applied Introduction to Cryptography and Cybersecurity' textbook: https://www.worldscientific.com/pb-assets/wspc-site/catalogue-pdf/ComputerScience-annual-catalogue-1754962278227.pdf <https://sites.google.com/site/amirherzberg/crypto-cyber-book> On Sun, Jul 19, 2026 at 9:37 AM Allan Liska via NANOG <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/ _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/DOIBQD4NI7EFS5WCDL6UOXDIAZFWFFP3/
