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
The US Department of Justice decided that they could seize any .com domain back in 2012, and have done so with ever-increasing frequency since. Heck, they are flexing literally today by seizing 1,000 more that were streaming World Cup matches. It's news to me that a state court issued a ruling to seize something, but I'm sure it's happened before. The cat has long been out of the bag here. On Sun, Jul 19, 2026 at 7:06 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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