Many of the important registries (particularly .com) are also based in the US, so presumably they can also be forced to do the same, even if the registrar is Canadian.
I have long wondered how far this jurisdiction goes. The DoJ could presumably not do much if they want to pull a domain name under a non-US ccTLD because in most cases neither the registry nor the registrar are US-based.
But the root zone itself is based in the US, in the sense that US persons manage and control it. Just as they could pull bar.com if foo.bar.com hosts something they don't like, could they pull .uk or another ccTLD if they are targeting bar.co.uk?
Gandi.net. Some people say their support is mediocre, but I haven't had to use it. Good luck.
-molo
I have contacted gandi.net support several times. I usually receive a response within a day, and always had my issue resolved.
Re:List of YC companies that use GoDaddy
by cschmidt on Friday December 23, 2011 @11:03AM
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easyDNS is Canadian.
EDIT: they have an interesting blog post on SOPA: http://blog.easydns.org/2011/12/22/how-sopa-will-destroy-the...
We use easyDNS and they're great.
Re:List of YC companies that use GoDaddy
by brendoncrawford on Friday December 23, 2011 @02:37PM
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http://gandi.net is an excellent service. Support almost always responds within 24 hours.
So I was thinking of switching all of my domains to a non-US registrar. I see lots of recommendations for NameCheap, but they appear to be US-based. Any recommendations for registrar (+ DNS) that aren't under the jurisdiction of the US DOJ?