Re: New DNS vulnerability: political overreach

[Tom Beecher via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>]

> 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-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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