Re: New DNS vulnerability: political overreach

[Allan Liska via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>]

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-after-day-long-suspension/) 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:
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> 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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