[LINK] alternative DNS root clients

[Kim Davies]

On Mar 18, 2012, at 4:27 PM, Kim Holburn wrote:

> On 2012/Mar/19, at 8:54 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote:
> 
>> Nobody has answered my question. This is much ado about (almost)
>> nothing, if we all register domains that aren´t .com or .net or .org
>> but rather dot-something under .our-respective-country-tld
>> 
>> Or am I wrong?.
>> 
>> I´d like to see the US govt try to do anything to a domain name
>> registered at AUNIC, the .NZ DNC, or NIC.ar for that matter.
>> 
>> My guess is that they can´t. Am I wrong?.

> It's simply not clear what they consider their jurisdiction.  They have started with .com, .org and .net.  I assume they consider any non country-code TLD would fall under their domain and ICANN is offering those now isn't it?  It's not clear that they couldn't  take a domain name under a country code down if they wanted to.  Who is going to stop them?

>From within the US, technically a domain within .AU, .NZ etc. could theoretically be altered, but with that comes significant collateral damage. By virtue of the root zone being managed in the US, there is the capacity to manage delegations at the TLD level, but not below. You do not have the granularity to do so without impacting the entire TLD. It would seem to me to be grossly overreaching to disable an entire country's domain to effect change to a single domain within it.

> Well, no-one thought they could or would confiscate a .com domain let alone one that was not in the US, not hosted in the US and registered with a non-US registrar.

Whether that is true or not, the actual .COM zone is located in the US, and that database is what determines whether the domain exists or not.

> BTW I do wonder what would happen if someone wanted to register a TLD like .australia or .brazil?

English language country names are prohibited as TLDs under the current policies.

kim