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?
first, this is far from new. and it is both a technical and political problem. the dns is hierarchic, i.e. control is centralized. and centralization and hierarchy are foci for 'attacks'. but be patient, deleg is gonna solve everything :) com, net, org, etc. are going to be administered in some juristiction. all juristictions suck in one way or another, and the suckage varies over time. cf. the problems in italy and spain this last year+. or how long it took the courts in mauritius to realize they were being abused.
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.
i am afraid you will have to spell this out in more detail for me to make sense of it. i got lost even before you got to vhosts. but i am easily confused. randy