What is the safest ccTLD be for businesses to register under? .se?
http://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/info.html http://www.afilias.info/about-us
Regardless, stupid law, Team America strikes again!
Under US law it is now possible for the US to seize any of these domain names -- and it will continue until the international organization in charge of this system (ICANN) says "oh, that's retarded, we're changing the system so that the US doesn't host .com and .org domains."
We had to fight against two acts proposed in the US which would have made it possible for the US to build a sort of DNS firewall to deny access to other domains from users working within the US -- our own rough draft of the Chinese firewall, if you like. (That was SOPA and PIPA.) But this other right was granted earlier than that, and is now being used to chilling effect.
EDIT: Just read about BitCoin! Sounding better and better now!
EDIT: This is wrong, see peteri's post.
.org is essentially the same as .com, owned by the US government and managed by Verisign.
So far the US has not publicly tried to drop wikileaks.org, forcing WikiLeaks migrate to a TLD that is clearly outside US reach. Maybe they wouldn't want the bad press.
I'm wondering what is possible if I simply have a relationship with a reseller in the US (e.g. the one with the superbowl ads, or eNom), but my TLD registrar is outside of reach. I assume they could make the reseller drop the contract, or terminate it.
Edit: I forgot to add that probably the safest TLD is from countries on their own and not being affected by Team America. Spain is not an option, we got our own SOPA by official pressures...
Edit 2: Oh, what about Switzerland? .ch anyone?
They are not very expensive ($35 seems about right for a domain name) I considered a domain there, but was not sure if I needed to be a resident of Iceland.
I like how Iceland has been spunky enough and stood up to a lot of international pressure at times (fish wars with UK, granting citizenship to Bobby Fischer who US really did not like, but otherwise was quite harmless, the way Iceland has handled banking crisis).
What I am wondering is what gives Iceland this power to say NO to big powers?
It would seem like majors could just ostracize it just like most countries that ran afoul of bigger countries. Is it because going against Iceland would anger Scandinavian countries?
There are other reasons as well such as the way Iceland decided to ignore the IMF and default rather than go the Irish or Portuguese route when their economy blew up during the credit crunch.
Check out www.1984.is - I have a couple of .is domains registered through them and would consider their VPS service if I had something controversial to host.
Edit: forget to mention you don't need to be an Icelandic resident - registration is open to all.