So I was thinking of switching all of my domains to a non-US registrar. I see lots of recommendations for NameCheap, but they appear to be US-based. Any recommendations for registrar (+ DNS) that aren't under the jurisdiction of the US DOJ?
So I was thinking of switching all of my domains to a non-US registrar. I see lots of recommendations for NameCheap, but they appear to be US-based. Any recommendations for registrar (+ DNS) that aren't under the jurisdiction of the US DOJ?
I have long wondered how far this jurisdiction goes. The DoJ could presumably not do much if they want to pull a domain name under a non-US ccTLD because in most cases neither the registry nor the registrar are US-based.
But the root zone itself is based in the US, in the sense that US persons manage and control it. Just as they could pull bar.com if foo.bar.com hosts something they don't like, could they pull .uk or another ccTLD if they are targeting bar.co.uk?
-molo
EDIT: they have an interesting blog post on SOPA: http://blog.easydns.org/2011/12/22/how-sopa-will-destroy-the...