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TLD and the law
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this post was submitted on 16 Aug 2023
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It does not, but whoever controlling those domains may have their own rules about who may use them, and terminate your account if they feel you've broken their rules.
One common rule is that you have to actually be a person or company in that location. I know that's true for .eu (which was real fun for brexit), probably for .uk, but I don't think it's a requirement for .us.
If you really want that name, I'd pick a non-ccTLD and pay a bit more.
Thanks for the quick reply! Assuming I host a Jellyfin instance for instance (pun intended), can they actually accuse me of breaking rules without a valid login? afaik for non-users the login page is as far as they (should be able to) go. As for the domain name, I'm not actually set on one specific name, but it seemed from the few I tried that .uk and .us are consistently much cheaper (~$5/yr as opposed to ~$10/yr).
If anyone asks you're just hosting home videos ;) No one can bust you for that.
Any reason those $5/yr in difference are worth the risk?
It’s just that I don’t know if there even is a risk… if there’s no risk I’d rather just pay less.
There is a risk. For example, Libya seized this .ly name for violating their laws.
Don't forget to turn the proxy off or risk account restrictions/warnings/termination for breaking the rules of CF.