[HN Gopher] What Is the Most Free TLD?
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       What Is the Most Free TLD?
        
       Author : splch
       Score  : 14 points
       Date   : 2021-08-30 21:52 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | lucb1e wrote:
       | Well that was abrupt. I was just getting into it, hit pagedown,
       | and promptly hit the bottom of the page where the EU was
       | dismissed and Iceland promptly declared victorious (together with
       | .onion to which no laws apply in the first place).
       | 
       | What's wrong with Switzerland? Norway? I know very little about
       | Chad or Japan, perhaps they have great TLD rules as well? Heck,
       | what even was the issue with the EU in the first place? I can
       | think of GDPR as being seen as problematic in some constrained
       | context, but privacy rules don't apply to TLD ownership so this
       | reader is just left wondering.
        
         | novok wrote:
         | They kind of do actually, most TLDs AFAIK need to resolve to
         | some sort of registered person or organization eventually.
        
       | pvinis wrote:
       | This post makes me happy to own a .is domain , not that I was
       | worried, but it's cool to accidentally have the bonus of what
       | this post describes.
        
       | novok wrote:
       | I hope one day, we will have some crypto blockchain gTLD that
       | will resolve in the general DNS infrastructure. I know namecoin
       | was a thing, but it never really picked up steam.
       | 
       | name -> IP address in a blockchain feels like one of the ideal
       | use cases of it.
       | 
       | Maybe a premine started by a commercial entity would have enough
       | financial backing to get started on it.
        
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       | superkuh wrote:
       | I used to think it was .onion. I owned my .onion domains in the
       | sense than only I had the private key that corresponded to the
       | hash that was my brute forced vanity domain. I thought that meant
       | I had control over them. I was wrong.
       | 
       | It turns out that even in p2p networks if there's one one
       | dominant development group then that group owns your domains. The
       | Tor Project decided that tor v2, with all it's potential
       | exploits, could not exist alongside tor v3 and so all the tor v2
       | domains will disappear to the official tor clients this october
       | 26th.
       | 
       | I don't own my .onions so I won't be making v3 sites.
        
         | RL_Quine wrote:
         | You literally explain in your comment that you're mad that you
         | can't continue to use a known vulnerable system which has been
         | out of vogue for years. I'm confused.
        
           | detaro wrote:
           | They also explain _why_ , so no need to be confused.
        
       | generalizations wrote:
       | TLDs only controlled by local courts:                 Austria
       | (.at)       Germany (.de)       Iceland (.is)       Russia  (.ru)
       | 
       | Of these, the blog simply makes the claim that Iceland has the
       | "strongest laws for individuals". Of those, I probably would have
       | guessed that - germany doesn't have a great rep, and
       | Russia...well.
       | 
       | So I don't necessarily disagree; but there is absolutely no
       | justification actually given for elevating Iceland, and including
       | that would seem to be half the value of the blog post.
        
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