So maybe launching with small-web.org and having small-tech.org is not a good idea after all…
So what are safe TLDs? Is there even such a thing? Any TLDs not controlled by the US in one form or another? Any anti-fascist TLDs?
Hey @EUCommission, maybe this is the sort of thing you should be looking into given all your “digital sovereignty”, talk, hmm? Pretty easy one to fix, this one.
The domain names of
autistici.org / inventati.org (and noblogs.org) are now suspended.
.org being managed by a US entity they were forced to suspend them due to Autisti (the oldest leftwing Italian collective doing web and mail hosting) being declared a terrorist organisation by TrumpEven for WikiLeaks they didn't do that
The US are clearly a fascist state now....
And all your links to your blogs are now dead 😭🥴
(Editing so everyone knows: maybe not. They were dead a few hours ago but not anymore)
(subedit: autistici.org still dead, the other are fine for now)
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in reply to Aral Balkan • • •To answer my own question, if you’re not a fascist in the EU, consider registering a TLD from a non-US registry with no ICAAN registry contact:
EU/EEA ccTLD registries (non-US operators, no ICANN registry contract):
• .de – DENIC eG, Frankfurt (cooperative)
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• .fr, .re, .yt, .pm, .tf, .wf – AFNIC, France
• .eu – EURid, Brussels
• .be – DNS Belgium
• .at – nic.at, Vienna
• .cz – CZ.NIC, Prague
• .pl – NASK, Warsaw (state research institute)
• .se, .nu – Internetstiftelsen, Sweden
• .dk – Punktum dk
• .fi – Traficom (Finnish state agency)
• .it – Registro.it / IIT-CNR, Pisa
• .es – Red.es (public body)
• .pt – DNS.PT
• .ie – IE Domain Registry
• .gr, .ελ – ICS-FORTH, Crete
• .hu – ISZT · .ro – ICI Bucharest · .bg – Register.BG · .hr
To answer my own question, if you’re not a fascist in the EU, consider registering a TLD from a non-US registry with no ICAAN registry contact:
EU/EEA ccTLD registries (non-US operators, no ICANN registry contract):
• .de – DENIC eG, Frankfurt (cooperative)
• .nl – SIDN, Arnhem (foundation)
• .fr, .re, .yt, .pm, .tf, .wf – AFNIC, France
• .eu – EURid, Brussels
• .be – DNS Belgium
• .at – nic.at, Vienna
• .cz – CZ.NIC, Prague
• .pl – NASK, Warsaw (state research institute)
• .se, .nu – Internetstiftelsen, Sweden
• .dk – Punktum dk
• .fi – Traficom (Finnish state agency)
• .it – Registro.it / IIT-CNR, Pisa
• .es – Red.es (public body)
• .pt – DNS.PT
• .ie – IE Domain Registry
• .gr, .ελ – ICS-FORTH, Crete
• .hu – ISZT · .ro – ICI Bucharest · .bg – Register.BG · .hr – CARNET · .si – Arnes · .sk – SK-NIC (owned by UK-listed Team Internet) · .lu – Restena · .lv, .lt, .ee, .cy, .mt – national academic/foundation registries
Nearby non-EU, non-US: .is (ISNIC, Iceland)
It’s also important to use non-US payment systems like SEPA, Aero, national payment systems – iDEAL (NL), Bancontact (BE), Blik (PL), Bizum (ES), MB Way (PT), Swish (SE), MobilePay (DK/FI)) – or non-proof-of-work (because environment) cryptocurrencies.
If you have any other suggestions, etc., please reply to the thread.
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in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Can maybe also consider .meow when the time comes!
dotmeow.org (yes that's .org...)
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It seems that you went with 'Mijn.host' - which is one of the few independent Dutch hosters. 99% of the Dutch webhosting market is owned by a couple of investor groups.
Once they acquire a hosting firm, it is quickly hollowed out. Prices are multiplied (sometimes even 5x!), customer support becomes nonexistent etc.
This page has an overview of the Dutch webhosting market. The worst one - by far - is TWS / YourOnline.
Hosting Groepen - Webhosters
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Bruno Scheele
in reply to h3artbl33d • • •@h3artbl33d Dodged a bullet there then 😅
Thanks for the website, that’ll be a good one to refer folks to.
Bruno Scheele
in reply to h3artbl33d • • •h3artbl33d
in reply to Bruno Scheele • • •Yeah, I think that TWS hosters now casually sell .nl domains for 25+ euro per year. Which is utter madness.
Jessie Kirk
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in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Thanks for bringing this up, reminded me¹ to start moving my stuff to a
.nldomain. (Moving everything is going to take forever though, soooo many places where I’m @tubul.net 😞)¹. Well, your toot, and I finally came up with a domain name I’m happy with.
Tizian 「ティツィアーン」
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •David Culley
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •As a German, I advise against registering a .de domain.
If you pay for 10 years in advance, and then migrate to another TLD like .eu or, say, .fr (because you moved to France) after, say, 3 years, then you'll lose the remaining 7 years. The .de TLD does not allow you to take remaining time with you. The .de TLD does all sorts of weird shit like this.
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •ccTLDs are definitely more resilient to pressure from ICANN than gTLDs and sponsored TLDs.
They might have their own issues, obviously. As always, it depends on your threat model.
@EUCommission
Matthew
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •At this point, I just assume majority of tech related corporation yo be fascist until proven otherwise. Maybe not the healthiest way to view it but it's getting difficult to find one who isn't in compassion.
Even then, I questioned if that is true or if they have skeleton in the closet that has to yet be exposed. I hate this timeline so much.
Aral Balkan
in reply to Matthew • • •Aral Balkan
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Also, some of you were scratching your heads when I mentioned last year that the Small Web will be using web numbers, not domain names.
Maybe it makes a bit more sense now?
ar.al/2025/06/25/web-numbers/
PS. If you’re a developer, you can host your web site at a web number (instead of a domain name) today using Auto Encrypt:
codeberg.org/small-tech/auto-encrypt#how-it-works
PPS. This work is funded by €408/month in donations (no that’s not our only source of income otherwise we would be homeless) but yes, I work full time on this. If you want to see us continue to exist against all odds, here’s the link:
small-tech.org/fund-us/
#WebNumbers #SmallWeb #SmallTech #antifascism #decentralisation #TLDs #ICAAN #centralisation #USA #fascism #tech
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Aral BalkanAral Balkan
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •On the same note, have any of you tried Stancer for online payments? Would you recommend them (or other EU-based providers with EU infrastructure?)
• european-alternatives.eu/product/stancer
• stancer.com/fra/en/online-payment
Because I’m thinking it’s probably best to get off of Stripe too.
Stancer | European Alternatives
European AlternativesTacháaan!
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •@EUCommission is going to answer or even read posts at all?
I would put some hope on Europe if they interact, but I've never seen anything from them but their own posts and no interaction whatsoever.
Aral Balkan
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Aral Balkan
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •In the same vein, any experiences with Creem?
• europealternative.com/compare/creem-vs-paddle/
• creem.io/
#EU #alternatives #paymentProcessing #merchantOfRecord
Creem vs Paddle: the Estonian alternative | EU Alternatives
EU Alternativesiwein
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •I know everyone hates crypto now, but decentralized payments still make more sense to me than EU controlled ones at this point.
@EUCommission
Aral Balkan
in reply to iwein • • •@iwein Yeah, I have zero issues with non-proof-of-work cryptocurrency in theory (and many with the folks who are usually involved in these things and their companies) but the real challenge there is, again, usubility. You’re up against “press this button and we’re done” (Apple Pay, etc.) or, at worst, enter three numbers and press a button (credit card checkout, when done right).
That’s very hard to compete with using:
1. Find out how all this works
2. Get a wallet
3. Find an exchange
4. Fund your wallet (guess how – that easy system that works as described above)
5. Pay using your wallet
6. What? You sent someone your private key by mistake?… Oops!
I mean you have to either be really dedicated or entirely out of options to be using crypto right now (right libertarian get-rich-quick artists, aside.)
But yes, in theory… :)
iwein
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •"in theory", yes well put... In theory the UX and scams could be solved by a government without turning it into a centralized currency with extra steps 🤣
@EUCommission
Aral Balkan
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in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Yepp, Stripe is full-on with the fascism. Its CEO Patrick Collision just joined forces with 9 other tech CEOs or fascists to fund the foundation Omacom by DHH, a well-known white supremacist calling for ethnic cleansing in Europe.
The goal of that "foundation" is to fund the work of other well-known fascists in the tech space, such as the developer of the window manager Hyprland.
Stripe cannot be trusted.
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in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Right, well, I’ve registered small-web.eu and small-tech.eu as backups for now.
Thankfully, with what I’ve built this year, the Small Web doesn’t need TLDs to work (see ar.al/2025/06/25/web-numbers/) but still, here’s hoping it doesn’t come to that because it will be a right hassle to move stuff over.
Buy, hey, better safe than sorry.
And I’m definitely reconsidering my choices when it comes to payment services/merchant of record for Catalyst (the free/open Small Web hosting app I’m building).
#US #fascism #ICAAN #TLDs #internet #web #BigTech #BigWeb #EU #SmallWeb #SmallTech #webNumbers
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Aral Balkanatom
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in reply to atom • • •Benjamin
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Are we going to need to bring back the phone number jingle but for IP addresses?
🎶 One Three Five! One Eight One!
Four-Four dot Fifty! 🎶
Raul Matias
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •> So what are safe TLDs?
.st and .is are pretty much bulletproof.
Raul Matias
in reply to Raul Matias • • •Nemo_bis 🌈
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •"Pretty easy one to fix"
Only if the service is provided without payment (or on the basis of barter). The blocking statute didn't work too well so far for Iran.
finance.ec.europa.eu/eu-and-world/open-strategic-autonomy/extraterritoriality-blocking-statute_en
Extraterritoriality (Blocking statute)
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