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I reckon people here are the most likely to know, so sorry for the slight derailment, but..

I am Irish, with a .com site hosted on servers in the UK. How does this affect me? I'm sure the US still claims a lot of influence over .com so it probably does some way.

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The US authorities can already seize domains under their jurisdiction (as to whether or not the process is legal, I think the jury is still out on that). This includes .com/.net/.org/.us.

Google 'ICE domain seizures'.

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