Why: so your site can’t be taken down by the USA.
At least one .org website that I know of has been shut down because the USA pressured the US organisation that controls the .org domain into doing so.
They could repeat this at will for quite a number of sites.
An immediate step to prevent this possibility, if you run a website, is to register a domain that is controled outside the US.
I have not found one article that just lists them all, and who controls them, but most TLDs have their own wikipedia article, e.g. .org (US controled), .eu (not US controled, yay) etc.
Ultimately ICANN controls all of this, and that’s a US orga too, and Trump could bully them into doing shit, too. But the people who know about these things don’t seem to think that’s a likely threat right now. Also ICANN seems to defer a lot of tasks to exactly these TLD orgas. After all the internet still is (somewhat) decentralized.
Context
https://web.archive.org/web/20260829204913/https://www.inventati.org/campaign/press
Further reading
https://blog.apnic.net/2023/01/13/who-controls-the-internet/
https://netmeister.org/blog/tlds.html
List of all most TLDs created with this script.
I was promised a list of TLDs. Where list?
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I didn’t really promise that. I would’ve delivered it but couldn’t find one. But you can check TLDs individually on wikipedia, as I wrote.
I don’t think packaged solution delivery is the role of YSK - it’s more about raising awareness.
Clearly, we should know that a post claiming we should know something won’t actually teach us about the thing we should know. How could we be so mistaken to think that something saying we should know something would tell us the thing we should know??1?
That’s not a full list.
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The problem is that you didn’t put any list in your post. You posted a script.
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I thought you’d provide a list of TLDs that weren’t US controlled (that you know of).