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What steps can one best take to get their domain portfolio out of reach of US authorities?

All my domains are at Godaddy (with private registration) right now. (Nothing involving sharing of IP products, but I fear this slippery slope won't end well.)

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Since .com/.net/org are controlled by a US company, you'd probably have to use a ccTLD like .ly and make sure to use a non-US registrar.

Libya would not be my first choice, if I was trying to escape politically motivated interventions from my DNS supplier.

No, but if you had a .com and .ly version of each domain/site then you could probably be reasonably confident that if one got seized the other would be ok (I'm assuming that the US and Libya are sufficiently far apart politically that they are unlikely to collaborate on this kind of thing).

Libya is so corrupt, they'll seize whatever domain your government (or competitor, nemesis, etc.) pays them to seize.

Germany has some of the strongest privacy protection laws, which is part of the reason I use Joker as my registrar. It doesn't get you out of reach of the TLD masters, but for everything else it's good peace of mind.

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