Re: New DNS vulnerability: political overreach

[Eliot Lear via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>]

If people want to get away from country ownership, there is a somewhat 
experimental approach called GNU Name service.  See RFC 9498.  I don't 
pretend that this is a replacement for the current system, but if anyone 
wants to get to that replacement, maybe it's worth a read.

Eliot

On 20.07.2026 02:26, Randy Bush via NANOG 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?
> 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
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