Ask Slashdot: Best ccTLD To Avoid Confiscation?

Posted by timothy on Thursday September 22, 2011 @03:43AM from the go-sealand dept.

First time accepted submitter Pete McCann writes "Given the recent spate of domain seizures by the U.S. government, it seems that registrations in any U.S.-hosted registry (like the gTLDs .com, .net, and .org) aren't stable places to put content that the U.S. government might find objectionable. I am wondering, are there any ccTLD registries out there that have an open registration policy and are willing to stand up to censorship demands from the USG? There is this list of ccTLDs with open registration policies, and the current MAFIAAFIRE redirection list looks very Tuvalu-heavy. Where would you register a site for maximum resistance to confiscation?"

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Re:Does not matter by Anonymous Coward · 2011-09-22 04:06 · Score: 5, Informative

This is not quite correct. The US Govt. would require the AUTHORITATIVE name server to redirect, which is why the usual .com, .net etc are vulnerable. By switching your TLD to .tv for example, your authoritative name server is outside of US jurisdiction.
Link to a brief but informative DNS primer: http://www.comodo.com/secure-dns/support/dns_history.html