Post by @yatil@yatil.social
So maybe launching with small-web.org and having small-tech.org is not a good idea after all…
So what are safe TLDs? Is there even such a thing? Any TLDs not controlled by the US in one form or another? Any anti-fascist TLDs?
Hey @EUCommission, maybe this is the sort of thing you should be looking into given all your “digital sovereignty”, talk, hmm? Pretty easy one to fix, this one.
@benjamin@piaille.fr
The domain names of
autistici.org / inventati.org (and noblogs.org) are now suspended.
.org being managed by a US entity they were forced to suspend them due to Autisti (the oldest leftwing Italian collective doing web and mail hosting) being declared a terrorist organisation by Trump
Even for WikiLeaks they didn't do that
The US are clearly a fascist state now....
And all your links to your blogs are now dead 😭🥴
(Editing so everyone knows: maybe not. They were dead a few hours ago but not anymore)
(subedit: autistici.org still dead, the other are fine for now)
@EUCommission To answer my own question, if you’re not a fascist in the EU, consider registering a TLD from a non-US registry with no ICAAN registry contact:
EU/EEA ccTLD registries (non-US operators, no ICANN registry contract):
• .de – DENIC eG, Frankfurt (cooperative)
• .nl – SIDN, Arnhem (foundation)
• .fr, .re, .yt, .pm, .tf, .wf – AFNIC, France
• .eu – EURid, Brussels
• .be – DNS Belgium
• .at – nic.at, Vienna
• .cz – CZ.NIC, Prague
• .pl – NASK, Warsaw (state research institute)
• .se, .nu – Internetstiftelsen, Sweden
• .dk – Punktum dk
• .fi – Traficom (Finnish state agency)
• .it – Registro.it / IIT-CNR, Pisa
• .es – Red.es (public body)
• .pt – DNS.PT
• .ie – IE Domain Registry
• .gr, .ελ – ICS-FORTH, Crete
• .hu – ISZT · .ro – ICI Bucharest · .bg – Register.BG · .hr – CARNET · .si – Arnes · .sk – SK-NIC (owned by UK-listed Team Internet) · .lu – Restena · .lv, .lt, .ee, .cy, .mt – national academic/foundation registries
Nearby non-EU, non-US: .is (ISNIC, Iceland)
It’s also important to use non-US payment systems like SEPA, Aero, national payment systems – iDEAL (NL), Bancontact (BE), Blik (PL), Bizum (ES), MB Way (PT), Swish (SE), MobilePay (DK/FI)) – or non-proof-of-work (because environment) cryptocurrencies.
If you have any other suggestions, etc., please reply to the thread.
@aral As a German, I advise against registering a .de domain.
If you pay for 10 years in advance, and then migrate to another TLD after, say, 3 years, then you'll lose the remaining 7 years. The .de TLD does not allow you to take remaining time with you. The .de TLD does all sorts of weird shit like this.
Apparently the .nl TLD does the same, according to Porkbun.
> These TLD's Make No Sense
> [These] country codes are straight up weird and will delete any amount of registration term over one year. These TLDs only carry over a maximum of one years' worth of registration: .nl, .de.
When you try to register a .de domain with Porkbun, they show you this warning:
> When a domain with this TLD transfers, any registration period more than a year does not carry over. This means that no matter how many years or months you have left on the current registration, the domain's expiration date will be a maximum of one year from the date of transfer. If you think this is absolutely bonkers, you are correct and we agree.
@davidculley @aral You pay to reserve a specific domain not generally a domain in that TLD space. If you decide to not use that domain anymore, that is your decision. If you reserve 10 seats in a cinema for a specific movie, you don’t get to come with 3 people and then after the fact demand to have 7 seats in other movies.
(That we rent domains instead of buying them is something that is worrysome in any case.)
@yatil I disagree.
If I pay to get the key and thus access to a certain house, and then never visit that house while having the key, then that is on me.
If I pay to get the key, and then return the key and thus cannot even access the house anymore, then I shouldn't have to pay for access to the house (which I don't have anymore).
Besides, all registrars other than those handling the .de and .nl are doing it in the second way. Therefore it's a business decision and not a technical limitation to do it in the first way.