[HN Gopher] What Is the Most Free TLD? ___________________________________________________________________ What Is the Most Free TLD? Author : splch Score : 14 points Date : 2021-08-30 21:52 UTC (1 hours ago) (HTM) web link (slc.is) (TXT) w3m dump (slc.is) | 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. | [deleted] | 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. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-08-30 23:00 UTC)