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Re:What's the cheapest domain you can register for 10 years? by CydeWeys on Sunday September 11, 2022 @11:12AM (#32800277)
ccTLDs do not have to follow ICANN rules. They are treated as sovereign territory of the country they belong to. On a ccTLD the registry can take your domain from you at any moment for any reason.
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Re:What's the cheapest domain you can register for 10 years? by nottorp on Sunday September 11, 2022 @02:58PM (#32802270)
While on a com, net, org the US government can take your domain from you at any moment for any reason?

Don't see much of a difference there.

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Re:What's the cheapest domain you can register for 10 years? by thiht on Sunday September 11, 2022 @03:41PM (#32802599)
That's not the case. The ICANN is an entity independent from the US. Well, that's not entirely true, but true enough that the US can't just take a .com from someone just like that.
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Re:What's the cheapest domain you can register for 10 years? by alexvoda on Sunday September 11, 2022 @03:35PM (#32802557)
Frankly, I would prefer if the USA just used .us (and .com.us, .org.us, .gov.us, etc) as a ccTDL and left .com, .net, .org, etc to be under the supervision of the UN.
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