Why Use a Country-Level Domain Extension?

Using overseas hosting (outside the United States) is a smart move and something we encourage — it can provide greater privacy, legal protection, and sovereignty over your data.

However, hosting alone is not enough.

Even if you host your website (for example, on a .com) in a country like Germany, while your files and database may be safe, your domain name itself can still be subject to U.S. law. Many domain extensions — including .com, .net, .org, .info, .us, and .edu — are governed by U.S. jurisdiction.

Additionally, many word-based domain extensions — such as .social — are managed by private corporations based in the United States, which can still put your domain name at risk of legal or commercial interference. Corporations can also be easily bought or influenced, unlike sovereign nations. Historically, sovereign nations tend to seek to hold onto their sovereignty — even when they are financially broke or fundamentally broken.

Domain takedowns are rare, but the possibility exists — especially in today's unstable political climate. For example, even close allies like Canada have experienced tension with the U.S., and Donald Trump even tried to instruct Microsoft to discontinue services to Denmark, raising the question: What is "normal" anymore?

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Interpol Dismantles 20,000 Malicious IPs and Domains Tied to 69 Malware Variants https://gbhackers.com/interpol-dismantles-20000-malicious-ips-and-domains-tied/ #CyberSecurityNews #cybersecurity #Malware #domain #IP

A list of Digital Service Providers outside the jurisdiction of the United States of America.

https://codeberg.org/Linux-Is-Best/Outside_Us_Jurisdiction

This is a group project, so feel free to reach out if you have any suggestions, or learn any new information.

Geschafft!

Heute habe ich es endlich umgesetzt und den Mail-Verkehr von meiner eigenen Domain in meinem @Tutanota Konto integriert.
Endlich alles geballt in einem Postfach mit einer riesigen, selbst angelegten Ordnerstruktur.

Vielen Dank an das Tuta-Team für die schöne und verständliche Anleitung dabei. Weiter so!

pls:

braucht irgendwer die Domain:

www.heisses-wasser.de ?

Idee dahinter: eine Karte,für Obdachlose die das dann gedruckt bekommen, wo zu sehen ist, in welchen Bars/Cafes sie heißes Wasser bekommen können.
Leider hatte ich nie die Zeit die Idee umzusetzen.

evtl ja was für #stadtmission oder @caritas_deutschland usw? die Domain läuft im November aus, ich gebe sie gerne ab, an Leute die die Idee umsetzen.

Case Study Spotlight: The Linux Foundation + DNSimple

Managing over 1,500 domains for open source projects is not an easy task —especially with a lean IT team. That’s why The Linux Foundation turned to DNSimple. By leveraging DNSimple’s robust #API and responsive support, they automated #Domain registration and management

Read the full story and see how your organization can benefit from DNSimple’s automation and expert support!
https://dnsimple.com/customers/linux-foundation

#tech #domain #platform #fediverse I really need somewhere / someone to talk to for neutral but knowledgeable advice on setting up my own publishing platform. Send a link? Ta.

Die #Domains "goldene-fahrradklingel.de" und "GoldeneFahrradklingel.de" suchen eine neue, fröhliche #Fahrradzukunft. Habt ihr etwas schönes damit vor? Dann schreibt uns einfach eine Nachricht hier bei Mastodon.

Anyone interested in the #domain nova.scot? #NovaScotia

Die sehr kurze Domain "kl-d.de" kann für ein neues Projekt genutzt oder übernommen werden. Bei Interesse schreibt uns einfach eine Nachricht, was ihr damit machen möchtet.

Helvetic Ruby 2025 is just around the corner. We’re proud to support the Ruby community as a travel sponsor for one of the event’s amazing speakers in Geneva. Wishing all attendees and organizers an inspiring and successful event!
Need rock-solid #DNS and #domain management? We're here for you.

https://helvetic-ruby.ch/

Do you have experience with porkbun.com as a #domain registrar, especially in comparison to namecheap.com? (Just looking for inexpensive domains to play around, nothing critical, so I'm okay with an US based registrar.)

Ready to Grow Your Business as a #Domain Reseller? Want to integrate #DNS management into your workflows via a powerful API?

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Read the full blog to see how DNSimple empowers resellers of every size:

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Anyone here familiar with the #Realnames product from #Hover? Trying to buy a #domain which they've hoovered up for their service and am getting contradictory information as to whether they'll sell #domains if people ask and are willing to pay enough to make the sale viable for them. Any input would be greatly appreciated.

#IT #website #websites #webmaster #webmasters #sysadmin #sysadmins @hover

If you are from Norway and want to buy or renew your .no domains, I strongly recommend a relatively new domain registrar:

https://norgesdomene.no

It's a Norwegian startup with best prices and incredible support.

I used to host on https://domene.shop but they were bought by a foreign company and prices went from 125 -> 179 in two years..

I hate it when investor companies destroys services like this. Greedy bastards! Boycott them!

#norway #domain #startup
#boycott #bigcorp #greed

Morning all! I was supposed to join @screwlisp for their Lispy Gopher Show podcast yesterday but time zone differences meant I had to send a recording instead which they discussed with questions from their mud (yep, it’s a geeky community) :)

I touched on the history of computing, the current challenge to our human rights and democracy with technofascism, and how the Small Web is one attempt to safeguard our freedoms by creating a peer-to-peer web owned and controlled by everyday people who use technology as an everyday thing. (And the role of design and simplicity in making that possible.)

Anyway, here’s the full recording I sent (as it skips around a bit in the show):

https://vimeo.com/1079992713

And here’s the recording of the show itself with commentary by screwlisp and the community:

https://communitymedia.video/w/kTjUgHSYCZsJwucUPVoLgx

Thanks for having me on and sorry I couldn’t be there in person.

Ooh, what’s this?… Look Over There!
(With apologies to Jaida Essence Hall)

So the little app I teased earlier is ready and deployed and I have our own instance running at:

https://look-over-there.small-web.org

Look Over There! lets you forward multiple domains to different URLs with full HTTPS support.

Why?

We have a number of older sites that are becoming a chore/expensive to maintain and yet I don’t want to break the web. So I thought, hey, I’ll just use the “url forwarding” feature of my domain registrar to forward them to their archived versions on archive.org.

Ah, not so fast, young cricket… seems some domain registrars’ implementations of this feature do not work if the domain being forwarded is accessed via HTTPS (yes, in 2025).

So, given Kitten¹ uses Auto Encrypt² to automatically provision Let’s Encrypt certificates, I added a domain forwarding feature to it and created Look Over There! as a friendly/simple app that provides a visual interface to it.

To see it in action, hit https://cleanuptheweb.org and you should get forwarded to the archived version of it on archive.org. I’m going to be adding more of our sites to the list in the coming days as part of an effort to reduce my maintenance load and cut down our expenses at Small Technology Foundation.

Since it’s Small Web, this particular instance is just for us. However, you can run your own copy on a VPS (or even a little single-board computer at home, etc.) A link to the source code repository is on the site. Once Domain³ is ready for use (later this year ), setting up your own instance of a Small Web app at your own server will take less than a minute.

I hope this little tool, along with the 404→307 (evergreen web) technique⁴, helps us to nurture an evergreen web and avoid link rot. (And the source code, as little as there is because Kitten does so much for you, is a good resource if you want to learn about Kitten’s new class-based component and page model which I haven’t yet had a chance to properly document.)

Enjoy!

¹ https://kitten.small-web.org
² https://codeberg.org/small-tech/auto-encrypt
³ https://codeberg.org/domain/app
⁴ https://4042307.org