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It doesn't really work that way; different entities control different TLDs, for example ".io" is administered by a UK company and most countries have their own.

People used to make complaints like yours when the US had DNS control, but Obama handed that off to ICANN in a somewhat controversial move years ago.

One of these sites was called "usjournal.us". Would you be surprised if Russia seized an allegedly CIA-controlled domain called "russiatoday.ru"?


> Would you be surprised if Russia seized an allegedly CIA-controlled domain called "russiatoday.ru"?

It's HTTPS cert is from RT[1]. Which is 100% russian propaganda. How came you think it's CIA controlled?

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT_(TV_network)


It was a hypothetical...


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