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Re:Mailbox.org – Privacy made in Germany by pluma on Friday August 26, 2016 @07:00PM (#12369904)
Because TLDs mean nothing? You don't see every US service use .us either. Plus .org has certain connotations (at least in Germany): non-commercial, activism, open source, etc. It's a bit ingenious considering this is a paid service, but they were probably proud they were able to get such a premium domain name.

Also, at least to Germans .de generally implies it's primarily German language and/or limited to a German (speaking) audience.

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Re:Mailbox.org – Privacy made in Germany by noinsight on Friday August 26, 2016 @08:48PM (#12370317)
Actually, your choice of TLD has a huge impact on jurisdiction.

The USoA asserts super-jurisdiction [1] over .com/.net/.org and will seize such domains at will [2], and therefore personally I will never use those TLD's as a non-US citizen. What legal recourse do non-Americans have in such a situation? They would probably have to fight it through US courts which significantly raises the bar for non-American entities.

Another thing to consider is DNSSEC when it comes to TLD's. Domain records are signed top-down.

The ccTLD's fall under the jurisdiction of their respective countries.

I don't even know under what jurisdiction the other/new TLD's fall under, it's probably based on where the owning company is headquartered?

[1] https://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/03/06/1720230/us-asserts-s...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_name#Seizures

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Re:Mailbox.org – Privacy made in Germany by gurubert on Monday August 29, 2016 @05:15AM (#12380836)
You can use your own domain with mailbox.org and not be affected by any .org issues you may think exist.
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