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You do realize the article is referencing the linked EFF comparison?

https://www.eff.org/files/2017/08/02/domain_registry_whitepa...

Then only the TLDs are listed which "only avenue for domain takedown is through a local court, rather than through an arbitrator order or trusted notifier".

Additionally countries that are part of the 5 eyes, 9 eyes or 15 eyes, see picture at the top of the article, are out, too.

For the EU part, I think it has to do with the EU tendency of surveillance laws. On the one hand the EU claims privacy and security as a main goal and the other hand they try to backdoor E2E encrypted messengers.

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Ah, no I did not realize that.

> Additionally countries that are part of the 5 eyes, 9 eyes or 15 eyes, see picture at the top of the article, are out, too.

That makes a lot more sense for excluding countries. They still made a bit of a leap with saying all of the EU is bad, we're more than 15 countries, but let's presume the 'eyes' countries cover the remaining TLDs that had this local court thing and that explains the author's selection.

That is, if local court is the only standard you want to go by. Another thing the article leaves as an exercise for the reader is whether any of those arbitration places have favorable rules compared to even the courts of Iceland for all I know.

That paper is a good read. It’s really disappointing that ICANN allowed the ngTLDs to engage in back room deals with the media and pharmaceutical industries. I think there was an effort to bring the ogTLD agreements inline with the ngTLD agreements, so I wonder if they’ve set it up so the ogTLDs can start doing the same.

ogTLD and ngTLD aren’t real names afaik. I use them for the original gTLDs and the new gTLDs.

ah, I was reading them as original gangster TLD and next generation TLD

> original gangster TLD

thug.life

This paper only includes a limited subset of TLDs. Many countries are missing, especially micronations could be interesting from this aspect.

Its even missing some EU member states.

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