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A comment on ICANN's rejection of Ukraine's request to sever Russia from the internet [pdf]. Parent comment
The request wasn't to cut off Russia from the net.
It was to let .ru domains expire, and not issue SSL certificates for them. It would only affect .ru and .рф websites.
Russians would still be able to get their news from bbc.com — but maybe not ria.ru
We all would have been better off. There's currently little-to-nothing of value on .ru websites.
You have three big search engines: google, bing and yandex (4 if you count baidu).
The request wasn't to cut off Russia from the net.
It was to let .ru domains expire, and not issue SSL certificates for them. It would only affect .ru and .рф websites.
Russians would still be able to get their news from bbc.com — but maybe not ria.ru
We all would have been better off. There's currently little-to-nothing of value on .ru websites.