Perhaps more a Q for Legal, but I'm trying & failing to find an outline of the regulations & processes a host jurisdiction holds over the weaponisation of Root DNS Server authorities. This is something that Ukraine gov asked of ICANN as to Russia, to blackout their www.
10 of the 13 Root DNS servers (& their numerous instances) are under the authority of US based institutions, among them US Army & DoD. This is an incredible centralisation of power under what is a highly unstable & punitive gov.
ICANN denied Ukraine gov's req to blackout Russia, saying the effect would be "devastating", & that it has "no sanction-levying authority [...] ICANN has been built to ensure that the Internet works, not for its coordination role to be used to stop it from working."
That was from 2022.
While it would be historical, these are historical times. I'm interested to know the steps a Trump administration might need to take, legal defenses therein, to weaponise DNS.
@xot They can takedown any TLD that ICANN control. ICE do this via their Operation In Our Sites, claiming to have taken down over a million sites. How true that is I don't know, and they say they largely relate to contraband.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_In_Our_Sites
(Warning: ICE gov site https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/over-million-websites-seized-global-operation)
@JulianOliver I’d be quite interested to see if you find any good analyses - I’ve had a cursory look around myself before and haven’t really found anything
I _think_ because for the longest time everyone thought the US would be a good friend and just never really interrogated that projection of soft power, and only now suddenly a whole lot of people are starting to think about it? a guess, though
have half considered trying to do an analysis myself but not sure I could do it justice in full
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