Mon, 19 Jan 2026 17:45:18 +0000 Sad Clouds <[email protected]> wrote:
Sad Clouds wrote: > On Mon, 19 Jan 2026 15:53:03 +0100 > "Julian H. Stacey" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.com : "jurisdiction of U.S. law" > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.net also Verisign > > so I will use my .com &.net less & my other domains more. > > So EU or UK registrar with .com domain may not be of much help if US > decide to suspend your domain for some vague reasons or if Verisign > decide to increase domain prices tenfold due to trade wars with > "unfriendly" countries. I hope it will not come to that, but I guess > forewarned is forearmed... Yes. Registrars are subsidiary, could not stop .com TLD owner Verisign disrupting selected .com in EU & UK, but if Trump coerced Verisign (& Trump invents ever more ways to coerce people, eg USA federal reserve chair https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c041dp0z95yo ) Disruption might take verisign time to design & process, as I suppose TLD would not just block whole registrars just 'cos registrar in EU or UK, 'cos some of their domains might be serving in USA. I think TLDs do regular eg approx daily polls of all domain registrars, to collate all eg *.com that each registrar has listed, into a list of domain name & IP# of registrar. If a TLD eg verisign does not have software pre-built it would take a while to add reading of all the .com DNS tables of all global registrars to trace IP #s of every domains's servers. Then geo-locate IP numbers to countries, & assemble an omit list of all .coms only served from within EU & UK, Then the TLD Verisign could only serve from domain names to registrar numbers for domains not on the drop list. USA might be less keen to block .coms dual served from USA as well as EU or UK, so some domains might pre-emptively in their DNS tables put an IP# that geolocates to USA, or at least not to EU & UK, to make it harder for Trump's coerced TLD to evaluate putative targets to attack. ? A Trump attack on .com & .net in EU & UK would impact eg not just my .com & .net but also the .com front end of my registrar in EU So eg I couldnt access my registrar's web login on their .com to configure domain changes & pay renewal fees for domains. But I'm sure registrars would if necessary email domain owners a new URL not under a .com or .net that Trump could not disrupt [** by a .com & .net block.] Domains in EU & UK under other TLDs eg .eu .de .uk .[org?] would continue OK [**]. ** Except another danger is if Trump's USA interfered with: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Assigned_Numbers_Authority "ICANN, a nonprofit private American corporation" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_root_zone "Distribution services are provided by Verisign" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_name_server 10 in USA, 3 Outside Russia, China & others have long wanted less USA control of the net's top structure; No sympathy for dictators, but USA's Trump fomenting global chaos, make one ponder what sudden disruption & emergency counter measures might escalate to break the Internet. Any errors ? Corrections welcome. Cheers, -- Julian Stacey http://berklix.org/jhs/mail/ gmail & yahoo block replies. Impeach Trump, mental, or paid by Putin ? Ukraine, NATO, Greenland etc.
