According to the press release, the domain was placed on registry lock by Verisign — it wasn’t done at the registrar. As Verisign is a US company, they probably assume it’s prudent to abide by court orders, so it shouldn’t be too much of a surprise.
The Telegram case is a bit more interesting given DomainME (registry, not registrar) is, according to the TechCrunch article, Montenegro-based. This demonstrates that US OFAC sanctions have extra-territorial reach (or perhaps Montenegro has imposed the same sanctions that the US did?). Again, shouldn’t be too much of a surprise, but it often is. Regards, -drc > On Jul 19, 2026, at 6:37 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/
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