Re: New DNS vulnerability: political overreach

[Andy Ringsmuth via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>]

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-paxton-secures-landmark-legal-victory-lock-pornographic-website-domain-and
>
> 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.
>
> Kevin
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