> > 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
The US Department of Justice decided that they could seize any .com domain back in 2012, and have done so with ever-increasing frequency since. Heck, they are flexing literally today by seizing 1,000 more that were streaming World Cup matches. It's news to me that a state court issued a ruling to seize something, but I'm sure it's happened before. The cat has long been out of the bag here. On Sun, Jul 19, 2026 at 7:06 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/T7N5E66SNG7LNEVU3UWSYIT7OS4673WU/
