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Service is now back online

due to major upgrades on our system due to overwhelming requests from hosting we are currently revamping our services. All of our services are offline at the moment due to this upgrade. We didn't expect to be so many people wanting hosting so fast and we quickly outgrew our current setup. We should be back online within the next 4 hours

When Verisign bought out Network Solutions, they became in-charge of the .com/.net/.org gTLDs which already had an agree with ICANN, overseen by the US Dept. of Commerce.  Verisign still runs the wholesale business of the previously stated gTLDs as well as several other TLDs (.cc/.edu/.gov/.jobs/.name/.tv... and probably some I am forgetting).  The confusion between .com/.net and .org is that .org was split-off from Verisign as it was meant to be used by non-profit organizations.  This never became an official requirement and while .org domans are issued by the registrar PIR, PIR is fully-owned by Verisign.  What's actually more disturbing is that the 13 root nameservers are controlled by ICANN, which is why people say the US Govt owns the Internet (of course there a many more than 13 server locations and they are not all within US borders anymore, there are a few hundred in fact, but they are duplicates nodes of those original 13).  Due to local contacts I actually spent some days during the summer of 2006 at the root nameserver hosted at UMD College Park (aka Root D).  Pretty sloppy wiring job there and a friend who used to be responsible for certain network operations at AMS-IX (Amsterdam Internet Exchange), which houses several redundant root nameservers, said it was a mess on his end too.

Iceland's ccTLD (.is) is a pretty safe bet, as the .is registrar (ISNIC) basically refuses to entertain anything but a court order from an Icelandic court (they have stated numerous times that when it comes to legality/policing domains, this is the responsibility of the owner of the domain, not the ISNIC).  I believe The Pirate Bay still owns/operate its .is domain (they received orders from a Swedish court to disable the domain but like I said earlier, they won't take orders from any nation's court outside of their own) but they also use .sx, which is a ccTLD for the small Caribbean Island of Sint Maarten (I don't about the registrar that runs it, but if The Pirate Bay is keeping it on stand-by, it must have a good reputation for ignoring international law).

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.com .net .org( ithink) everything really. lol google it e.e you can also find out what countries dont give a fuck about domains. like we just bought .li for our backend panel. our main site which isnt even hosted on the same servers as our service is .com and perfectly legal.

hi.. not trying to jack your thread... i just want to ask.. (I did try to google)

what other TLDS does the us own?

.com

and what else?

We run our main site frontend as .com but our server panels will be using a .li address in a few days when DNA propagates.

It'd be nice if .com weren't controled by the USA, they're going to be worse than China and Germany combined as far as Internet regulation by 2020.

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Indeed, but it's bad for customers, if they don't know your IP address.

thanks for the suggestion We will purchase one within the next few hours. The u.s would only be able to seize our domain name anyway not our content....

You should use a non-US domain name then. e.g. .is for Iceland. At least in addition to the .com

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