Re:Mailbox.org – Privacy made in Germany
by noinsight on Friday August 26, 2016 @08:48PM
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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?
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