Re: New DNS vulnerability: political overreach

[Jay Acuna via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>]

On Sun, Jul 19, 2026 at 8:08 AM Andy Ringsmuth via NANOG
<nanog () lists nanog org> wrote:
> "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."

The technical issue would be susceptibility of All database to
tampering by any authorities
who hold legal supremacy/jurisdiction over whichever person(s) or
organizations are responsible for specific TLDs,
or even the actual org responsible for that registry, for any reason,
against the wishes of the domain holder.

Even if the domain holder exists outside that jurisdiction or can
legally operate under different rules.

While this can be a serious technical issue; I don't believe there is
anything network operators can do about it.
You could consider distributed alternatives such as IPNS of the IPFS
protocol a cryptographic-based name system,
Tor hidden services, etc.

Your best option might be to register your own domains under multiple
ccTLDs while ensuring that there
is no overlap amongst the registry operators or registrars between any
of the chosen TLDs and domains.


> Andy Ringsmuth
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-JA
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