Domain registrar DMCA ignore

breached · April 24

@ailice said: AFAIK their reseller domain acts like proxy, didnt know its still relevant cause looks like they remove it on their website, but if you concern about domain ownership just make sure select ICANN accredited-one not proxy / reseller.

I'm pretty sure Njal.la is a reseller for Tucows, correct? As far as I am aware Peter Sunde (creator of Njalla) made a long list of tweets about how ICANN wouldn't him become a registrar because of his stance on piracy.

totally_not_banned · April 24

@breached said:

@ailice said: AFAIK their reseller domain acts like proxy, didnt know its still relevant cause looks like they remove it on their website, but if you concern about domain ownership just make sure select ICANN accredited-one not proxy / reseller.

I'm pretty sure Njal.la is a reseller for Tucows, correct? As far as I am aware Peter Sunde (creator of Njalla) made a long list of tweets about how ICANN wouldn't him become a registrar because of his stance on piracy.

I'm not really very informed about Njal.la but in any case being kind of banned by ICANN still wouldn't stop him from at least working with local registries. Let's face it, in regards to reliability in tricky situations (like the current topic) those are probably a better choice anyways.

YukiChan · April 24

@shruub said:

@YukiChan said:

@ totally_not_banned said:

@YukiChan said:

@ totally_not_banned said:
@YukiChan I think you are being a bit blunt there. These are companies that will likely turn a blind eye to the complaints you receive but they are not going to necessarily support you doing shady stuff. Actually they don't want to know what you are doing at all because this way they cover their own ass.

I understand

@ JasonM said:
namesilo igones DMCA if you do not use their hosting or nameservers or email.

Oh really? Have you been using Namesilo for several years? If so then any extension doesn't matter right? Or I'll get .cc, .co, .vc, cx?

Well, i don't have much experience there but the original pirate extension is .to and from what i hear it's still going pretty strong after all these years.

Edit: .vc is managed by Affilias, .cx by Planet Three Limited (UK/Australia), .co indirectly belongs to Neustar and .cc is (as @Porlam already posted) Verisign. Compared to these .to is probably easily better. .bz is at least actually administered from Belize and there used to be some pretty old sites but it obviously doesn't have the reputation of .to.

.to is almost like 30 euro,

Well, that's the price you pay for 90% safety/peace of mind. It's still relatively cheap, especially considering that buying though tonic.to (cutting the middleman), you'd only get that price for 10+, technically 25 years.

Hmmm, should I buy tonic.to or namecheap, sav?

@ailice said:

@YukiChan said:
They said they're allowed anime and game piracy. I think I can buy that, but I am worried so.

AFAIK their reseller domain acts like proxy, didnt know its still relevant cause looks like they remove it on their website, but if you concern about domain ownership just make sure select ICANN accredited-one not proxy / reseller.

This sounds like illegal... Do you have recommend one domain registrar and extension?

@totally_not_banned said:

@YukiChan said:
.to is almost like 30 euro,

Yeah, .to is not cheap. It's actually $50 when bought directly at www.tonic.to so these registrars are already giving quite a steep discount. Maybe it's worth to look for alternatives. .to has a lot of history in relation to link aggregators/trackers and a lot of massive sites used it often for years while large scale investigation against them was ongoing but i've also read that they might have gotten a little softer in recent years.

Like i've said a really big local board used .bz for at least 10 years with seemingly no problems. They are offline now but it might as well just be that the community fell apart.

In general you want some ccTLD of a country that's somewhat stable, administers it's toplevel domain itself and is as little internationally integrated as possible. Ideally one of the handful of countries that haven't signed into global copyright treaties, like for example - if it hasn't changed recently - Tonga aka .to.

[Edit: According to Wikipedia Tonga is signatory to TRIPS and Berne for quite a while now so a couple treaties seemingly don't necessarily hurt to much]

If you don't want host anything resembling porn or touching religion .ir (Iran) would be pretty much a jackpot as they don't care for international (especially western) copyright - you could basically openly host warez there and the only problem would be the massive bandwidth bill and probably shitty international connectivity.

.la (Laos) is another of those countries i think but i'm not sure if they administer their extension on their own. Afghanistan (.af) and (i think?) Cuba (.cu) would be other candidates but i highly doubt you'd be able to get those at a somewhat affordable price - if at all.

Just look around a bit and apply some common sense. Chances are you'll stumble accross something halfway decent and since your site is unlikely to instantly attract such an amount of attention that you'll be declared enemy number one with 1000's of people trying to take you down, so you probably don't need to get the 1000% ideal solution right now anyways. I mean which grey area site hasn't moved at least once or twice?

Here is a little reading material for you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_parties_to_international_copyright_agreements Rule of thumb: The less treaties the better (i have no idea if some are more important than others though - sorry i'm not that deep into the topic).

Edit: Iraq seems to be another entry in the no (international) copyright at all list. Probably again not good for stuff touching porn or religion though.

Thank you for the information, I'll acknowledge this more!

ailice · April 24

@breached said:
I'm pretty sure Njal.la is a reseller for Tucows, correct? As far as I am aware Peter Sunde (creator of Njalla) made a long list of tweets about how ICANN wouldn't him become a registrar because of his stance on piracy.

It does looks like, but they managed got some domain country TLD by using other brand (sarek oy). It looks as long your domain under sarek list ccTLD supported, you would be fine.

I just concern they remove it from their website, probably somehow strange to me cause they still "half" do reselling on some TLD they selling.

totally_not_banned · April 24

@YukiChan said:

@shruub said:

@YukiChan said:

@ totally_not_banned said:

@YukiChan said:

@ totally_not_banned said:
@YukiChan I think you are being a bit blunt there. These are companies that will likely turn a blind eye to the complaints you receive but they are not going to necessarily support you doing shady stuff. Actually they don't want to know what you are doing at all because this way they cover their own ass.

I understand

@ JasonM said:
namesilo igones DMCA if you do not use their hosting or nameservers or email.

Oh really? Have you been using Namesilo for several years? If so then any extension doesn't matter right? Or I'll get .cc, .co, .vc, cx?

Well, i don't have much experience there but the original pirate extension is .to and from what i hear it's still going pretty strong after all these years.

Edit: .vc is managed by Affilias, .cx by Planet Three Limited (UK/Australia), .co indirectly belongs to Neustar and .cc is (as @Porlam already posted) Verisign. Compared to these .to is probably easily better. .bz is at least actually administered from Belize and there used to be some pretty old sites but it obviously doesn't have the reputation of .to.

.to is almost like 30 euro,

Well, that's the price you pay for 90% safety/peace of mind. It's still relatively cheap, especially considering that buying though tonic.to (cutting the middleman), you'd only get that price for 10+, technically 25 years.

Hmmm, should I buy tonic.to or namecheap, sav?

I've looked into it a bit deeper. tonic seems to actually have an US office these days. While they still don't seem overly cooperative it might be a good idea to look into alternatives.

https://torrentfreak.com/tag/tonic/

Generally tonic themselves would obviously be the best choice out of those 3 (i don't know sav, namecheap at least offers crypto payments but check the torrentfreak link - it's more or less a generic registrar after all). There's no middleman at all then but it might also need a special approach there for covering your ass compared to normal registrars.

YukiChan · April 24

@totally_not_banned said:

@YukiChan said:

@shruub said:

@YukiChan said:

@ totally_not_banned said:

@YukiChan said:

@ totally_not_banned said:
@YukiChan I think you are being a bit blunt there. These are companies that will likely turn a blind eye to the complaints you receive but they are not going to necessarily support you doing shady stuff. Actually they don't want to know what you are doing at all because this way they cover their own ass.

I understand

@ JasonM said:
namesilo igones DMCA if you do not use their hosting or nameservers or email.

Oh really? Have you been using Namesilo for several years? If so then any extension doesn't matter right? Or I'll get .cc, .co, .vc, cx?

Well, i don't have much experience there but the original pirate extension is .to and from what i hear it's still going pretty strong after all these years.

Edit: .vc is managed by Affilias, .cx by Planet Three Limited (UK/Australia), .co indirectly belongs to Neustar and .cc is (as @Porlam already posted) Verisign. Compared to these .to is probably easily better. .bz is at least actually administered from Belize and there used to be some pretty old sites but it obviously doesn't have the reputation of .to.

.to is almost like 30 euro,

Well, that's the price you pay for 90% safety/peace of mind. It's still relatively cheap, especially considering that buying though tonic.to (cutting the middleman), you'd only get that price for 10+, technically 25 years.

Hmmm, should I buy tonic.to or namecheap, sav?

I've looked into it a bit deeper. tonic seems to actually have an US office these days. While they still don't seem overly cooperative it might be a good idea to look into alternatives.

https://torrentfreak.com/tag/tonic/

Generally tonic themselves would obviously be the best choice out of those 3 (i don't know sav, namecheap at least offers crypto payments but check the torrentfreak link - it's more or less a generic registrar after all). There's no middleman at all then but it might also need a special approach there for covering your ass compared to normal registrars.

Okay I read it, .ch and .is, .si, .ru, .to, .tv are ccTLD domain and I'll take CH or SI

nyaa.si use domene.si

.ch is one of https://www.nic.ch/registrars that sell .ch domains, I don't know which registrar is better. Only .ch is one Switzerland..

SI and CH, RU, SU are cheaper prices than .to

cheapprivacy.ru
xuid.ru

Thoughts?

totally_not_banned · April 24

@YukiChan said:

@totally_not_banned said:

@YukiChan said:

@shruub said:

@YukiChan said:

@ totally_not_banned said:

@YukiChan said:

@ totally_not_banned said:
@YukiChan I think you are being a bit blunt there. These are companies that will likely turn a blind eye to the complaints you receive but they are not going to necessarily support you doing shady stuff. Actually they don't want to know what you are doing at all because this way they cover their own ass.

I understand

@ JasonM said:
namesilo igones DMCA if you do not use their hosting or nameservers or email.

Oh really? Have you been using Namesilo for several years? If so then any extension doesn't matter right? Or I'll get .cc, .co, .vc, cx?

Well, i don't have much experience there but the original pirate extension is .to and from what i hear it's still going pretty strong after all these years.

Edit: .vc is managed by Affilias, .cx by Planet Three Limited (UK/Australia), .co indirectly belongs to Neustar and .cc is (as @Porlam already posted) Verisign. Compared to these .to is probably easily better. .bz is at least actually administered from Belize and there used to be some pretty old sites but it obviously doesn't have the reputation of .to.

.to is almost like 30 euro,

Well, that's the price you pay for 90% safety/peace of mind. It's still relatively cheap, especially considering that buying though tonic.to (cutting the middleman), you'd only get that price for 10+, technically 25 years.

Hmmm, should I buy tonic.to or namecheap, sav?

I've looked into it a bit deeper. tonic seems to actually have an US office these days. While they still don't seem overly cooperative it might be a good idea to look into alternatives.

https://torrentfreak.com/tag/tonic/

Generally tonic themselves would obviously be the best choice out of those 3 (i don't know sav, namecheap at least offers crypto payments but check the torrentfreak link - it's more or less a generic registrar after all). There's no middleman at all then but it might also need a special approach there for covering your ass compared to normal registrars.

Okay I read it, .ch and .is, .si, .ru, .to, .tv are ccTLD domain and I'll take CH or SI

I didn't necessarily mean to go by their lists but besides the articles partly not being exactly brand new it's probably not the worst idea either. If those domains have a reputation there they probably have something going for themselves.

nyaa.si use domene.si

.ch is one of https://www.nic.ch/registrars that sell .ch domains, I don't know which registrar is better. Only .ch is one Switzerland..

SI and CH, RU, SU are cheaper prices than .to

cheapprivacy.ru
xuid.ru

Thoughts?

I have zero idea about those registrars. Others will probably be more helpful there. Personally i think SU is pretty funny being the extension of a construct that ceased to exist 34 years ago but beyond that i have no actual clue, sorry.

Edit: Oh, one thing: SI is Slovenia, which is actually an EU member. While i've seen sites use that extension i'm not really convinced it's that good of an idea but i might very well be wrong.

Ght · April 24

@Porlam said:

@YukiChan said: Yeah that's good, what about the host domain registrar?

flokinet.is/njalla/inwx are good I think

nja.lla its a reseller of tucows , your domains will be whiped out if there is something not right with the terms. flokinet its a romanian based company and romania its in EU , and nobody can escape if EU rreally wants to destroy something , so dont be fools.

the domains that would help are .ir .sa .su .qa .sy .ao

YukiChan · April 25

@totally_not_banned said:

@YukiChan said:

@totally_not_banned said:

@YukiChan said:

@shruub said:

@YukiChan said:

@ totally_not_banned said:

@YukiChan said:

@ totally_not_banned said:
@YukiChan I think you are being a bit blunt there. These are companies that will likely turn a blind eye to the complaints you receive but they are not going to necessarily support you doing shady stuff. Actually they don't want to know what you are doing at all because this way they cover their own ass.

I understand

@ JasonM said:
namesilo igones DMCA if you do not use their hosting or nameservers or email.

Oh really? Have you been using Namesilo for several years? If so then any extension doesn't matter right? Or I'll get .cc, .co, .vc, cx?

Well, i don't have much experience there but the original pirate extension is .to and from what i hear it's still going pretty strong after all these years.

Edit: .vc is managed by Affilias, .cx by Planet Three Limited (UK/Australia), .co indirectly belongs to Neustar and .cc is (as @Porlam already posted) Verisign. Compared to these .to is probably easily better. .bz is at least actually administered from Belize and there used to be some pretty old sites but it obviously doesn't have the reputation of .to.

.to is almost like 30 euro,

Well, that's the price you pay for 90% safety/peace of mind. It's still relatively cheap, especially considering that buying though tonic.to (cutting the middleman), you'd only get that price for 10+, technically 25 years.

Hmmm, should I buy tonic.to or namecheap, sav?

I've looked into it a bit deeper. tonic seems to actually have an US office these days. While they still don't seem overly cooperative it might be a good idea to look into alternatives.

https://torrentfreak.com/tag/tonic/

Generally tonic themselves would obviously be the best choice out of those 3 (i don't know sav, namecheap at least offers crypto payments but check the torrentfreak link - it's more or less a generic registrar after all). There's no middleman at all then but it might also need a special approach there for covering your ass compared to normal registrars.

Okay I read it, .ch and .is, .si, .ru, .to, .tv are ccTLD domain and I'll take CH or SI

I didn't necessarily mean to go by their lists but besides the articles partly not being exactly brand new it's probably not the worst idea either. If those domains have a reputation there they probably have something going for themselves.

nyaa.si use domene.si

.ch is one of https://www.nic.ch/registrars that sell .ch domains, I don't know which registrar is better. Only .ch is one Switzerland..

SI and CH, RU, SU are cheaper prices than .to

cheapprivacy.ru
xuid.ru

Thoughts?

I have zero idea about those registrars. Others will probably be more helpful there. Personally i think SU is pretty funny being the extension of a construct that ceased to exist 34 years ago but beyond that i have no actual clue, sorry.

Edit: Oh, one thing: SI is Slovenia, which is actually an EU member. While i've seen sites use that extension i'm not really convinced it's that good of an idea but i might very well be wrong.

I’m thinking of getting one .si from domene.si maybe. Because nyaa.si is still running over 7 years.

@Ght said:

@Porlam said:

@YukiChan said: Yeah that's good, what about the host domain registrar?

flokinet.is/njalla/inwx are good I think

nja.lla its a reseller of tucows , your domains will be whiped out if there is something not right with the terms. flokinet its a romanian based company and romania its in EU , and nobody can escape if EU rreally wants to destroy something , so dont be fools.

the domains that would help are .ir .sa .su .qa .sy .ao

What do you recommend one domain registrar?

Ght · April 25

@YukiChan
inwx.com
hosting.co.uk
atakdomain.com

ifyko · April 25

@Ght said:
@YukiChan
inwx.com
hosting.co.uk
atakdomain.com

I don't recommend atakdomain/domainnameapi for this, your domain will be suspended.

YukiChan · April 25

@ifyko said:

@Ght said:
@YukiChan
inwx.com
hosting.co.uk
atakdomain.com

I don't recommend atakdomain/domainnameapi for this, your domain will be suspended.

What about inwx? Or another domain registrar advice?

JosephF · April 25

No domain registrar should be taking DMCA complaints as they aren't legally obligated even in the United States, as they are not the host of the website.

JosephF · April 25

@totally_not_banned said:
Well, i don't have much experience there but the original pirate extension is .to and from what i hear it's still going pretty strong after all these years.

Wasn't .to managed by Freenom, which recently dropped out of the registry business?

Afghanistan (.af)

Afghanistan is Taliban territory.

The most easy to get would likely be Palau (.pw - the horrid professional web shit) but their extension is sadly administered by Central Nic Directi, i think.

Paula is a former US Trust Territory that is currently in a Compact of Free Association with the United States.

jahrinc · April 25

@JosephF said: Wasn't .to managed by Freenom, which recently dropped out of the registry business?

No, thats .tk

totally_not_banned · April 25

@JosephF said:

@totally_not_banned said:
Well, i don't have much experience there but the original pirate extension is .to and from what i hear it's still going pretty strong after all these years.

Wasn't .to managed by Freenom, which recently dropped out of the registry business?

Nah, .to has always been with Tonga's tonic but they seem to have an US office these days and at least claim to comply with court orders. As to how far that's just mostly a claim in an attempt get/stay off the Notorious Markets list (being added or even just threatened to be added there already speaks volumes)... there's still a boatload of pirate's using it largely unbothered it seems but who really knows? In any case it used to be practically bulletproof for the longest time and pioneered whois privacy (just don't run a whois server lol).

dhmo · April 25

Cloudflare is great choice I think.
For Offshore TLD(s) I recommend .ru or .su If wanna bypass DMCA.
But Cloudflare don't offer .ru .su as I know sadly...

JosephF · April 25

@dhmo said:
Cloudflare is great choice I think.
For Offshore TLD(s) I recommend .ru or .su If wanna bypass DMCA.
But Cloudflare don't offer .ru .su as I know sadly...

Why would you recommend Cloudflare as a registrar?

Goodtesteronline · April 25

@JasonM said:
namesilo igones DMCA if you do not use their hosting or nameservers or email.

Are you associated with them? NO Namesilo and their support is trash! Good luck using them, choose other providers.

dhmo · April 25

@JosephF said:

@dhmo said:
Cloudflare is great choice I think.
For Offshore TLD(s) I recommend .ru or .su If wanna bypass DMCA.
But Cloudflare don't offer .ru .su as I know sadly...

Why would you recommend Cloudflare as a registrar?

As far as I recall, Cloudflare would have been reluctant to shut down(suspending) a site or domain unless it was court ordered.

JosephF · April 25

@dhmo said:

@JosephF said:

@dhmo said:
Cloudflare is great choice I think.
For Offshore TLD(s) I recommend .ru or .su If wanna bypass DMCA.
But Cloudflare don't offer .ru .su as I know sadly...

Why would you recommend Cloudflare as a registrar?

As far as I recall, Cloudflare would have been reluctant to shut down(suspending) a site or domain unless it was court ordered.

DMCA demands are a recognized legal process in the US.

dhmo · April 25

They just fowards dmca to client
And they wont do anything unless it was court ordered.

shruub · April 25

@YukiChan said:

@totally_not_banned said:

@YukiChan said:

@shruub said:

@YukiChan said:

@ totally_not_banned said:

@YukiChan said:

@ totally_not_banned said:
@YukiChan I think you are being a bit blunt there. These are companies that will likely turn a blind eye to the complaints you receive but they are not going to necessarily support you doing shady stuff. Actually they don't want to know what you are doing at all because this way they cover their own ass.

I understand

@ JasonM said:
namesilo igones DMCA if you do not use their hosting or nameservers or email.

Oh really? Have you been using Namesilo for several years? If so then any extension doesn't matter right? Or I'll get .cc, .co, .vc, cx?

Well, i don't have much experience there but the original pirate extension is .to and from what i hear it's still going pretty strong after all these years.

Edit: .vc is managed by Affilias, .cx by Planet Three Limited (UK/Australia), .co indirectly belongs to Neustar and .cc is (as @Porlam already posted) Verisign. Compared to these .to is probably easily better. .bz is at least actually administered from Belize and there used to be some pretty old sites but it obviously doesn't have the reputation of .to.

.to is almost like 30 euro,

Well, that's the price you pay for 90% safety/peace of mind. It's still relatively cheap, especially considering that buying though tonic.to (cutting the middleman), you'd only get that price for 10+, technically 25 years.

Hmmm, should I buy tonic.to or namecheap, sav?

I've looked into it a bit deeper. tonic seems to actually have an US office these days. While they still don't seem overly cooperative it might be a good idea to look into alternatives.

https://torrentfreak.com/tag/tonic/

Generally tonic themselves would obviously be the best choice out of those 3 (i don't know sav, namecheap at least offers crypto payments but check the torrentfreak link - it's more or less a generic registrar after all). There's no middleman at all then but it might also need a special approach there for covering your ass compared to normal registrars.

Okay I read it, .ch and .is, .si, .ru, .to, .tv are ccTLD domain and I'll take CH or SI

nyaa.si use domene.si

.ch is one of https://www.nic.ch/registrars that sell .ch domains, I don't know which registrar is better. Only .ch is one Switzerland..

SI and CH, RU, SU are cheaper prices than .to

cheapprivacy.ru
xuid.ru

Thoughts?

yeah, xuid.ru is known and should work. you shouldn't worry too much even for EU, .se also works fine.

YukiChan · April 26

@shruub said:

@YukiChan said:

@totally_not_banned said:

@YukiChan said:

@shruub said:

@YukiChan said:

@ totally_not_banned said:

@YukiChan said:

@ totally_not_banned said:
@YukiChan I think you are being a bit blunt there. These are companies that will likely turn a blind eye to the complaints you receive but they are not going to necessarily support you doing shady stuff. Actually they don't want to know what you are doing at all because this way they cover their own ass.

I understand

@ JasonM said:
namesilo igones DMCA if you do not use their hosting or nameservers or email.

Oh really? Have you been using Namesilo for several years? If so then any extension doesn't matter right? Or I'll get .cc, .co, .vc, cx?

Well, i don't have much experience there but the original pirate extension is .to and from what i hear it's still going pretty strong after all these years.

Edit: .vc is managed by Affilias, .cx by Planet Three Limited (UK/Australia), .co indirectly belongs to Neustar and .cc is (as @Porlam already posted) Verisign. Compared to these .to is probably easily better. .bz is at least actually administered from Belize and there used to be some pretty old sites but it obviously doesn't have the reputation of .to.

.to is almost like 30 euro,

Well, that's the price you pay for 90% safety/peace of mind. It's still relatively cheap, especially considering that buying though tonic.to (cutting the middleman), you'd only get that price for 10+, technically 25 years.

Hmmm, should I buy tonic.to or namecheap, sav?

I've looked into it a bit deeper. tonic seems to actually have an US office these days. While they still don't seem overly cooperative it might be a good idea to look into alternatives.

https://torrentfreak.com/tag/tonic/

Generally tonic themselves would obviously be the best choice out of those 3 (i don't know sav, namecheap at least offers crypto payments but check the torrentfreak link - it's more or less a generic registrar after all). There's no middleman at all then but it might also need a special approach there for covering your ass compared to normal registrars.

Okay I read it, .ch and .is, .si, .ru, .to, .tv are ccTLD domain and I'll take CH or SI

nyaa.si use domene.si

.ch is one of https://www.nic.ch/registrars that sell .ch domains, I don't know which registrar is better. Only .ch is one Switzerland..

SI and CH, RU, SU are cheaper prices than .to

cheapprivacy.ru
xuid.ru

Thoughts?

yeah, xuid.ru is known and should work. you shouldn't worry too much even for EU, .se also works fine.

Yeah right, I might get .si from http://domene.si, because nyaa.si was still using that one domain registrar on May 9, 2017

Everyone, thank you for helping me!

sandoz · April 26

@totally_not_banned said: Compared to these .to is probably easily better

.to is too overrated.

.to now have an agreement, still overrated for many things

https://torrentfreak.com/anti-piracy-coalition-continues-quest-to-unmask-to-pirate-sites-is-it-effective-210112/

https://torrentfreak.com/unmask-25-pirate-site-owners-ace-mpa-piles-pressure-on-tonic-registry-201114/

https://torrentfreak.com/to-registry-must-identify-owner-of-fmovies-and-other-pirate-domains-190925/

https://torrentfreak.com/anti-piracy-alliance-wants-to-registry-to-expose-streaming-piracy-giant-s-to-201018/

There are few more articles about it. If you tell that .to is more secure than .com and .net, I would agree with you. But is not secure like in the past.

Any ccTLD is "usually" better than .com and .net

totally_not_banned · April 26

@sandoz said:
But is not secure like in the past.

Yeah, that's sadly the same conclusion we came to also. Actually the exact same torrentfreak articles a are linked a few posts above yours

Any ccTLD is "usually" better than .com and .net

Probably at least any locally run one. I doubt for example .cc will behave much different as it's also Verisign. Same goes for the over big domain administration companies like Afilias, CentralNic and so on.

Kind of like InternetBS used to be a super solid registrar until it was bought by CentralNic. In general most publicly available no-cooperation-options have largely diminished over the last 10-15 years.

totally_not_banned · April 26

@JosephF said:

@totally_not_banned said:
Afghanistan (.af)

Afghanistan is Taliban territory.

Well, yes but it's (surprisingly) still a signatory to 4 out of 7 international copyright treaties. You still have a good point though as it's kind of questionable if the current government would give two shits about upholding those.

The most easy to get would likely be Palau (.pw - the horrid professional web shit) but their extension is sadly administered by Central Nic Directi, i think.

Paula is a former US Trust Territory that is currently in a Compact of Free Association with the United States.

Interesting. I would actually be intrigued to see how that works out in praxis, sadly the fact Directi runs the extension basically makes it a non-starter as they'd likely cooperate even if it was about Iran.

No domain registrar should be taking DMCA complaints as they aren't legally obligated even in the United States, as they are not the host of the website.

Yes and no. Technically you are obviously 100% correct but for a lot of locations it's still likely just a technicality. In regards to EU countries for example the only thing missing that makes adhering to DMCA notices mandatory is a solid amount of example rulings declaring the a DMCA notice constitutes what EUCD (basically the EU's DMCA-equivalent) requires to notify providers.

In general from a legit point of view having a legally sound procedure to deal with infringing content without involving the courts is also not necessarily a bad thing. The real problem with DMCA is rather that abusive notices aren't really discouraged much, so a ton of these target perfectly legal content or content the complainer has no rights to anyways without thinking twice thereby putting a lot of burden on the provider to decide, which are valid and which aren't as not complying puts them in a pretty bad spot if their judgement was somehow off. Given the massive amount of fraudulent DMCA notices that are sent out every day that's pretty much unrealistic but if there was some kind of strong incentive to only use it in obvious and watertight situations i feel it wouldn't be that much of a problem.

Porlam · April 26

Taliban may ignore DMCA. but .af has problem force suspend
https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/12/24071036/queer-af-mastodon-taliban-shut-down-afghanistan

shruub · April 26

@Porlam said:
Taliban may ignore DMCA. but .af has problem force suspend
https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/12/24071036/queer-af-mastodon-taliban-shut-down-afghanistan

I mean, as long as you a) don't get too popular and don't host queer content or other content that they won't like, it's probably alright.

shruub · April 26

@sandoz said:

@totally_not_banned said: Compared to these .to is probably easily better

.to is too overrated.

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