Why: so your site can't be taken down by the USA.

At least one .org website that I know of has been shut down because the USA pressured the US organisation that controls the .org domain into doing so.

They could repeat this at will for quite a number of sites.

An immediate step to prevent this possibility, if you run a website, is to register a domain that is controled outside the US.

I have not found one article that just lists them all, and who controls them, but most TLDs have their own wikipedia article, e.g. .org (US controled), .eu (not US controled, yay) etc.

Ultimately ICANN controls all of this, and that's a US orga too, and Trump could bully them into doing shit, too. But the people who know about these things don't seem to think that's a likely threat right now. Also ICANN seems to defer a lot of tasks to exactly these TLD orgas. After all the internet still is (somewhat) decentralized.

Context

https://web.archive.org/web/20260829204913/https://www.inventati.org/campaign/press

Further reading

https://blog.apnic.net/2023/01/13/who-controls-the-internet/
https://netmeister.org/blog/tlds.html

List of all most TLDs created with this script.

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I didn't really promise that. I would've delivered it but couldn't find one. But you can check TLDs individually on wikipedia, as I wrote.

I don't think packaged solution delivery is the role of YSK - it's more about raising awareness.

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  • [–] 3 points 19 hours ago

    Clearly, we should know that a post claiming we should know something won't actually teach us about the thing we should know. How could we be so mistaken to think that something saying we should know something would tell us the thing we should know??1?

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  • [–] 18 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    The problem is that you didn't put any list in your post. You posted a script.

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