On: Microsoft takes down No-IP.com domains

[lfuller]

My home VPN is unable to connect right now. I use a noip.me domain. The actions of both the courts and Microsoft are extremely concerning to me.

[macNchz → lfuller]

Same here, I was confused this afternoon when my home vpn hosted on a servebeer.com subdomain wouldn't connect. Now it makes a lot more sense, but I'm left with a very bad taste in my mouth.

[bitJericho → macNchz]

Buy your own domain, preferably with a company outside the US. I use gandi.net and http://code.google.com/p/gandi-automatic-dns/

It's more expensive, but you control it.

[wyager → bitJericho]

>you control it.

Hardly. Any domain in the existing domain name system can be seized.

[bitJericho → wyager]

I'd like to see that on a global TLD. If you mean that any arbitrary country can seize a TLD belonging to that country, then yeah I guess you are right. You can always get a distributed TLD but then you have the problem of them not being resolvable unless the PC you are at is correctly configured.

[Flimm → bitJericho]

What's a global TLD?

[bitJericho → Flimm]

Sorry, I should say international non-US tld, or in other words, a TLD not under the control of the US.

[dylz → bitJericho]

US controls root/'.' via ICANN and can theoretically seize anything under the DNS system

Only reason they don't for gTLDs is because of the political fallout