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TLD and the law (iusearchlinux.fyi)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi there, I'm currently looking into renting a domain from cloudflare for convenient access to my hosted services from outside my home. It seems some of the cheapest options for the domain name I want to use are country TLDs (.uk, .us). Does this bind me to their laws in any way? can anyone come at me for hosting (e.g. Illegally downloaded content) on their TLD?

Regardless, is there any reason I shouldn't use cloudflare for this? any drawbacks I should be aware of?

Edit: I should mention I'm currently using duckdns for free and the reason I want to move is that it seems some organizations (like my university and workplace) block duckdns (for reasons beyond me).

Edit 2: So to my understanding there's not a big one, but some risk involved, so I think I'll pay a bit more for a non-ccTLD. Thanks everyone!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lol that's not it, currently I'm just hosting a Jellyfin instance since streaming services seem to have been going steadily downhill for years now. But that also counts as illegal activity afaik. I wasn't worried up until now since in my country piracy laws aren't really enforced at all (as a kid I didn't even know downloading content was considered illegal), but I thought maybe using a .uk TLD may mean I have to answer to them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

For personal use I'd say go with whatever and make sure your Jellyfin server has been locked down. Maybe block anything but your own country IPs as that will lower any risk of scanning. But this is pretty much not necessary for a personal instance.

If you want to share your Jellyfin it depends on how many and how much you trust those you share with. The bigger the risk, the more likely I'd be to order through Njalla and routing through a VPN or the like.

I myself just use my lastname.tld as it's for personal use along with sharing with a few trusted friends. I do though use a ccTLD that is assigned to my country as I feel like I have a better chance at keeping my stuff secure and private.