Considering that this is the second time in less than a week that a company has had their domain taken off line at the Registrar level (https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/14/telegrams-shortlink-domain-is-back-online-...) I do think there is a legitmate technical concern here, though I'd argue it is far from new. It is a scenario that most companies don't account for, but depending on the type of business you are in, it is a very real concern and you should have a response plan in place. allan On Sunday, July 19th, 2026 at 9:08 AM, Andy Ringsmuth via NANOG <nanog@lists.nanog.org> wrote:
Can we keep politics and personal opinions separate and independent of the technical aspects of the issue at hand (if there are any)? Per the NANOG list info page:
"Appropriate topics include: routing; broad-based engineering problems/issues/solutions; outages; performance measurement; evolving wide-area technologies; exchange points; traffic engineering; operational experience; ISP security; and trouble ticket systems."
Is there an actual legit technical issue here that needs discussion or solving?
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On Jul 19, 2026, at 6:05 AM, Kevin Tillery via NANOG <nanog@lists.nanog.org> wrote:
A Texas court has suspended the .com domain of a Dutch porn site which doesn't have any business presence in Texas, because it doesn't comply with Texas rules about porn (which are extremely onerous):
https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/attorney-general-ken-paxt...
Clearly the US is not fit to manage top-level domains (other than .us of course) even though it ended up with them by historical accident. It worked for a while but now it's not working any more. Has anyone come up with any plan to solve this and make the DNS more neutral?
As a first step I'd think about experimenting with a DNS resolver that would move all US TLDs to subdomains of .us. However that obviously would just break the current internet for whoever is using this resolver, at least due to widespread use of vhosts.
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