Unfortunately, every registrar in the USA has, essentially, a "morality" clause imposed upon it by the US government. I'm not just talking about ICE seizures of .com domains, but also state judges ordering that domains be seized without regard for ICANN rules, and the federal governments widely healed belief that they can demand people be shut down.
I'd love to find a "no bullshit" registrar that was outside the USA. In a jurisdiction where censorship is actually forbidden.
Iceland could be a good candidate. [1]
I'm much more worried about a domain being stolen by the US government than I am by hackers. And that's not because I'm doing anything the US government shouldn't like... just that, with all these massive seizures, they're going to get domains by mistake. Then try and get your domain back... ugh.
The worry circulating around the domain industry is that they will use VeriSign and Virginia jurisdiction at the registry level. I can't remember if this has happened or not yet though.
Also of worry is the nexus created by the Regional Internet Registries (ARIN, etc.) which manage the address space and associated policy.
ARIN manages the IP address space for US, Canada, many Caribbean and North Atlantic islands and could easily be hobbled by over-reaching legislation from any of those national interests - with possibly a much deeper and broader impact than anything that could be inflicted by similar legislation affecting the domain name system.
I'd love to find a "no bullshit" registrar that was outside the USA. In a jurisdiction where censorship is actually forbidden.
Iceland could be a good candidate. [1]
I'm much more worried about a domain being stolen by the US government than I am by hackers. And that's not because I'm doing anything the US government shouldn't like... just that, with all these massive seizures, they're going to get domains by mistake. Then try and get your domain back... ugh.
[1] http://www.slaw.ca/2010/06/17/iceland-passes-law-to-protect-...