Can confirm what the other commenter said, completely impossible to have an effect. .com and .gov and .fr and .nz are what’s called TLDs or Top Level Domains. Everything is delegated down from that level for any subdomains. .fr and .nz are country owned and any attempt to take control of that would be returned to their respective governments by ICANN.
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richardisaguy@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Hope this doesnt affect other .gov domains, like .gov.fr, .gov.nz or .gov.br
naticus@lemmy.world 4 days ago
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
It won’t
This is about the .gov TLD, you’re talking about the .br and .nz TLDs.
However, icann is still US based, he might try and take control of that and truly break the Internet in pieces
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Why would it? The article merely mentions that he’s posting his nonsense on existing .gov domains, which is something he can totally do as the President.
nottelling@lemmy.world 4 days ago
it does not.
.gov.fr. is a subdomain of .fr., unrelated to .gov…
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 4 days ago
It’s also unused, as far as I know.
isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Because the shorthand for “government” in French is “gouv” not “gov”, as in “gouv.qc.ca”