todb, 4 months ago

@josephcox the internet, being borderless, is a very weird place to host country-specific TLDs anyway.

Kind of always has been a bad idea.

dazo, 4 months ago

@josephcox fast rewind 25-ish years back, and there were lots of discussions what to do with .af domains as Taliban was going to disconnect Afghanistan from the Internet.

https://m.slashdot.org/story/19208
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/afghanistan-taliban-internet

simonzerafa, 4 months ago

@josephcox

Would terminating the domain early be classed as breach of contract?

Not that taking the matter to whatever passes for a legal process would be a good idea but it would be interesting to see the terms and conditions.

hrefna, 4 months ago

@simonzerafa

Most of the ccTLDs have very, uh, loose guidelines in their contracts here. The .io domain famously has the line "for any purpose that is sexual or pornographic or that is against the statutory laws of any nation" in their rules.

Libya (.ly) will remove registrations and justify it by saying that they are against the "law of Libya." etc.

@josephcox

SwiftOnSecurity, 4 months ago

@josephcox F