Homeland Security seizes music blog domains

Re:Homeland Security seizes music blog domains by andre on Wednesday December 15, 2010 @07:22PM (#2010543)

since .com/.net/.org are controlled by US companies, is the next step (for blogs/sites such as these) to move to .ru? or some other company not controlled by US companies?

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Re:Homeland Security seizes music blog domains by ElbertF on Wednesday December 15, 2010 @10:53PM (#2011049)

Ironically some have moved to China (.hk) for their internet freedom.

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Re:Homeland Security seizes music blog domains by gasull on Thursday December 16, 2010 @08:37PM (#2014724)

NB: .hk is TLD for Hong Kong SAR (Special Administrative Region). While .cn is TLD for mainland China.

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Re:Homeland Security seizes music blog domains by Raphael on Wednesday December 15, 2010 @07:58PM (#2010657)

Bingo.

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Re:Homeland Security seizes music blog domains by alphabeat on Wednesday December 15, 2010 @08:51PM (#2010789)

How does this work with ICANN being an American organisation controlling the . server?

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Re:Homeland Security seizes music blog domains by wmf on Wednesday December 15, 2010 @09:00PM (#2010821)

ICANN can shut down all of a ccTLD or none of it; such a penalty is too large to ever use.

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Re:Homeland Security seizes music blog domains by andre on Wednesday December 15, 2010 @10:30PM (#2011009)

if you're going for a non com/net/org domain, I'm assuming you'd have to register it with a company that's not US based too, so no ordering .nl domains through Godaddy, cause that can still cause problems.

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Re:Homeland Security seizes music blog domains by gst on Thursday December 16, 2010 @08:52AM (#2011987)

There's no reason to use GoDaddy - there are plenty of other registrars.

I never understood why GoDaddy has some form of monopolly in the US. Personally I use Domaindiscount24 (based in Germany) for my domains.

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