Interesting seeing this website with a .ru domain. Haven't been following them, but seems like they're based in Latvia. I don't think they would live comfortably being physically in Russia, but also seems like the state could seize the domain.
What the hell? This would only stop countries in the west from accessing Russian websites. Russia can certainly set up it's own fallback DNS for .ru domains. And China and India aren't likely to want to be blocked from Russian domains, so they'll likely use that DNS system also. As usual, people who don't understand how DNS works are asking to wave it around like a magic wand. The internet treats censorship as damage and routes around it. Yes, even DNS itself.
this is one of the things that Russians got right; you had to show up in person (and show your passport), or provide a notarized sale contract, if you want to transfer a .ru domain. At least that's how it used to be, could be different now
I mean, the .su TLD for Soviet Union domains is still active. Revoking .ru would probably have an ironic unintended consequence of Russian websites moving to it.
Wouldn't this just prevent people outside of Russia to visit sites on those TLDs? DNS servers based in Russia could (be coerced to) keep all domains that this would remove?
Russian here.
It's only small part of what is coming from the goverment in near future... Soon, if you are using/registering ".ru"-domain and use it, you will have to "register" it in gov - pay ~30$ and wait for 5 days. If you doesn't do that, then created site can be immediately blocked via providers with no warning on any day. So a lot of us moving to .com now adays...
Worst is yet to come. Now we have a blacklist of domains, and maybe have to expect whitelist in 2015 or so.
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