2026-09-07 00:17 UTC
@karlauerbach@sfba.social @vanzick@mastodon.social @jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net theoretically the US could delete ".ir", '.cu". ".gl", or anybody else they didn't like this week, but that would be the end of the DNS system and the end of their control.
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@karlauerbach@sfba.social 2026-09-07 02:56
@ghouston@mamot.fr @vanzick@mastodon.social @jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net Rather than deleting top level domains, it can be much more "fun" usurping their contents, perhaps by taking over some root servers. By-the-way, people forget that of the 13 root server clusters, the US gov't operates something like four of those 13. That's enough to do some "interesting" stuff. I wrote a bit about that 20 years back... "What Could You Do With Your Own Root Server?" https://www.cavebear.com/old_cbblog/000232.html