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The real class action case is that the huge stream of money flow is not cashing in Europe at all, not a cent. Who the f owns the infrastructure? If I buy a domain from and in Europe the money got to stay in Europe.

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Then buy domain operated by european registry?

Sure, but the final destination of the money flow is the same ICANN, which apparently need to give "Accreditations"/affiliation to the franchise. I remind you that the infrastructure is 100% European, this is purely idiotic from the European side.

In general icann fees are fairly small fraction of the overall cost of a domain, most of the money ends to registrars and registrys.

That´s is not the point. The monopoly is the whole point. Would you pay tax to India or China because the sunlight shines in your country every day? Who owns the sun!

You are perfectly free to run your own root servers

Don´t you worry about it, We already do. That do not solve the bigger issue yet, but the alert was sent, so be happy :)

The real class action is the issue of a fascist government declaring antifascism terrorism, making all bank transfers void, seizing their domain (.org). They could do the same to ICC and ICJ, or anyone they dislike really. Most root-servers are located in America, too.

That some company is behind .com or some TLD and earning some money with that is a nothingburger.

Operators for gTLDs specifically .com .org .net serve large bases and operate under extensive contractual obligations, which can constrain arbitrary targeted enforcement. Than, some ccTLDs that have weaker mechanisms for appeal, leaving registrars and registrants exposed to discretionary decisions by the ccTLD operator or relevant national authorities

Cool words which apply if you are in USA. If you are not in USA, the Trump administration demonstrated you are better off with a domain of your country (usually a ccTLD).

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