you could, yes

which domain name servers resolve .eth and .sol domains? The ones I use don’t, unfortunately

because of what’s going on right now. because they can’t get a domain from any organization that’s under the auspices of icann

edit: the alternative is for autistici to go nameless and for autistici users to type in an ip address instead of https://www.autistici.$TLD

to make the web resistant to such censorship we need to have service providers that accept and support alternative namespaces; the alternative to that is for service providers to just stop accepting the authority of the us government and organizations such as icann and stop accepting routes and dns records from entities that do^[1] and create their own routing tables and dns records, thus effectively ending the inter part of the internet

edit to your sneaky 8pm edit, which was:

People generally want their email addresses to be reachable. They don’t just use it for super secret activism.

well, they don’t have a usable domain now and they can’t get one either because icann will just block it. what do you want me to do about it? take over icann?

these are their email options:

1. use an email address without a domain (e.g. user@192.0.43.7)
2. use gmail
3. use a domain in an alternative namespace so at least people using a domain name server capable of resolving the aforementioned alternative namespace can address the user by domain (e.g. user@autistici.o)

thanks for the sneaky 12:26am downvotes by the way, that really makes me want to help autistici with their issues, or you with yours.

I’m afraid the non-US parts of the world need to decentralize the internet sooner rather than later

in the meantime autistici can register an .epic/.indy/.libre domain or help set up a new tld of their choosing in an alternative namespace

(This comment is a draft and, as such, still subject to change):

But the people who know about these things don’t seem to think that’s a likely threat right now.

Nonetheless I would advise to be prepared in case trump suddenly decrees that .gl is now .us or that there’s a 4 million percent tariff on using a .ca domain or some such foolishness. If one can suddenly declare the gulf of mexico to be the gulf of america or lake ontario to be lake america one can certainly put pressure on a single organisation to change whatever they feel like.

As an internet user you can:

• create a hosts and/or hosts.BAK file and make generous use of it ^[1]. Think of digital infrastructure you need to use everyday and/or in case of an emergency.

• keep a list of functioning dns servers owned and operated by organizations that will likely roll back any nonsensical superimposed changes. Consider local, independent, non-US entities.

• when push comes to shove, be prepared to use alternative namespaces such as the one operated by opennic ^[2]

As an internet proprietor you can:

• prepare yourself and your servers for such a scenario

• register (and use) a domain in an alternative namespace

• make users aware of alternative methods to reach you/your services

As a network operator you can:

• maintain awareness and ensure preparedness

• maintain (auxiliary) digital infrastructure independently on non-US soil

• support alternative namespaces

• peer with sovereign non-US AS

who’s to say these supranational organizations won’t impose their own requirements? let alone stand for a free and open internet?

who’s to say they will propagate to (self-purported) external entities at all?

that is not effectively possible.

Consider a catastrophic breakdown of the root system caused by a geopolitical incident. I think you will find that as the situation changes so too will the postures and standpoints of these supranational organizations and therefore the digital landscape, and that which you have previously held effectively impossible can very rapidly become not just a possibility but a likelihood.