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

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