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Re:Best TLD that can't be taken down by US/etc? by nextparadigms on Sunday January 15, 2012 @07:14PM (#3468757)
Maybe the one from Iceland. You'll need a country that doesn't bow easily to US, but also doesn't have its own laws for easily taking down domains either. You might find blockaid.me useful, too.
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Re:Best TLD that can't be taken down by US/etc? by 178 on Sunday January 15, 2012 @07:25PM (#3468787)
ISNIC, in charge with *.is, sez: "Under what circumstances would ISNIC close or delete the domain wikileaks.is based on the contents of their website?

The answer is simple, such an action would require a formal court order from an Icelandic court. ISNIC has never been handed such a verdict about any .is-domain during its close to 25 years of history."                                       

http://www.isnic.is/en/news/view?id=204

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Re:Best TLD that can't be taken down by US/etc? by ComputerGuru on Sunday January 15, 2012 @08:45PM (#3468990)
Welcome to Hacker News. Thanks for sharing and contributing, it's appreciated.

Please refrain from using '1337' speak here. s/sez/says/ and thank you.

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Re:Best TLD that can't be taken down by US/etc? by electic on Sunday January 15, 2012 @08:49PM (#3468998)
Thanks for wasting pixels on my screen ComputerGuru...
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Re:Best TLD that can't be taken down by US/etc? by c1sc0 on Sunday January 15, 2012 @07:58PM (#3468867)
One of the reasons why I chose a .is domain for my personal blog. A few gotchas though: registering a .is domain takes a while (think days/weeks instead of minutes) and your TTL needs to be high. http://fr.anc.is
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Re:Best TLD that can't be taken down by US/etc? by jcdavis on Sunday January 15, 2012 @08:21PM (#3468924)
I don't remember having a high registration time for my .is domain, although its possible I just forgot.

The only gotcha I would mention if you go through isnic is that you need to have your own DNS servers, and they have to be registered with ISNIC with a NIC handle (and some other things?). I just use Linode's DNS servers (where I host it), and haven't had any issues.

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Re:Best TLD that can't be taken down by US/etc? by 178 on Sunday January 15, 2012 @08:36PM (#3468963)
you can also use 1984.is, an icelandic free dns provider. nice guys, too.
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Re:Best TLD that can't be taken down by US/etc? by dataminer on Monday January 16, 2012 @01:13AM (#3469598)
Have you used their vps service? If you have please comment on its reliability, seems very competitively priced. According to wikipedia 100% of Iceland electricity is produced from renewable sources. I am tempted to move most of my servers to Iceland.
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Re:Best TLD that can't be taken down by US/etc? by walrus on Sunday January 15, 2012 @08:17PM (#3468916)
What does TTL stand for in this context?
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Re:Best TLD that can't be taken down by US/etc? by mattparlane on Sunday January 15, 2012 @08:33PM (#3468952)
It's the normal DNS Time-To-Live:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_to_live#DNS_records

Iceland's servers have to host the records, so low TTLs would increase their traffic and therefore load.

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Re:Best TLD that can't be taken down by US/etc? by dangrossman on Sunday January 15, 2012 @08:49PM (#3468999)
@ChuckN : FYI, you have been hellbanned for the past ~2 years. Your comments are automatically marked [dead] and hidden.
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Re:Best TLD that can't be taken down by US/etc? by thebigshane on Monday January 16, 2012 @01:25AM (#3469617)
Looking through his comments after reading your comment feels just like watching the Sixth Sense. Has ChuckN really been commenting for the past two years without knowing nobody can see him (well except for the few that enable showdead)?

And now, maybe today, ChuckN will read your comment, the first person to acknowledge him after so long, and he will playback the last 2 years of his HN involvement in a montage in his head as all of the pieces start to come together ... why does no one respond to my comments? why do my comments always get downvoted? could it be true? am I really... dead?

This is quite a remarkable story actually.

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Re:Best TLD that can't be taken down by US/etc? by snatch_backside on Sunday January 15, 2012 @11:30PM (#3469375)
Well, that just makes me want to see them. How do I do that?
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Re:Best TLD that can't be taken down by US/etc? by dangrossman on Sunday January 15, 2012 @11:32PM (#3469381)
Turn on 'showdead' in your profile.
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Re:Best TLD that can't be taken down by US/etc? by snatch_backside on Tuesday January 17, 2012 @10:23PM (#3477742)
Sweet, thank you.
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Re:Best TLD that can't be taken down by US/etc? by biturd on Sunday January 15, 2012 @11:35PM (#3469388)
How can you tell, how do you know?
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Re:Best TLD that can't be taken down by US/etc? by c1sc0 on Monday January 16, 2012 @06:56AM (#3470330)
timezones ... thx for responding about TTL. About the only thing I'd add is that it needs to be set to 24h whereas most others will accept lower values.
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