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Seizing a domain name via ICANN has to be global, as I understand it, while a website might have only broken some nations laws.

If the UK government wants to ban porn but loves gambling, while the US wants to ban gambling but loves porn, a blocking mechanism that lets them have different blocklists allows both nations to get the censorship their voters have chosen.



Pretty sure the US does it all the time or just contacts the registrar.


Only for TLDs within legal reach. TLDs like .ru and .su require diplomatic outreach and backroom deals.




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