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At this point it seems negligent at best to host your site on a US or US ally based registrar


...or on a .com, .net or .org tld, since "having a business connection with Verisign" is enough to put you under US jurisdiction. Apparently.


The USA judicial system might think you are under their juristiction, but your local juristicion might disagree.

I can't wait till they cross the line, and block some .com, then a group in that (non-US) country gets local injunctions forcing it to resolve. It could split DNS or wrestle it out of US control.



That's assuming your local jurisdiction has a spine. I have multiple .com and .net domains all done through Canadian registars, for the sole purpose of not wanting to deal with the BS that is going on down south. If what I'm reading is true, they can be pulled offline whenever someone gives the word go and they're gone. I have no faith that the local courts will do anything of use, especially with the current government that we have. I'd be hard pressed to think of any western nation that would.


Let's not get out of hand here. This didn't happen because it was in the US, this happened because the domain was on GoDaddy.

Having your domain hosted with a reasonable registrar would have been enough to prevent this.




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