> There is nothing special about ".us" over anything else.
No, .us is special; the OP sums it up well enough:
> Under NTIA regulations, the administrator of the .US registry must take certain steps to verify that their customers actually reside in the United States, or own organizations based in the U.S.
Such restrictions aren't unique to .us, and I've worked with other ccTLDs that have similar restrictions. Generally, AIUI, they're supposed to be for the people of that nation, who can then do as they see fit. Maybe that's free access to whoever pays for it, maybe that's "only our people", such as is closer to the case here.
> Content problems are the business of the FBI and other law enforcement agencies.
If GoDaddy actually did the job they were supposed to be doing here, it might actually be possible for that to happen, since there'd be a door on US soil to bust down, but if the bad actor is just in some far-away nation that was never supposed to have been permitted to register that domain in the first place, the bar goes up a bit.
No, .us is special; the OP sums it up well enough:
> Under NTIA regulations, the administrator of the .US registry must take certain steps to verify that their customers actually reside in the United States, or own organizations based in the U.S.
Such restrictions aren't unique to .us, and I've worked with other ccTLDs that have similar restrictions. Generally, AIUI, they're supposed to be for the people of that nation, who can then do as they see fit. Maybe that's free access to whoever pays for it, maybe that's "only our people", such as is closer to the case here.
> Content problems are the business of the FBI and other law enforcement agencies.
If GoDaddy actually did the job they were supposed to be doing here, it might actually be possible for that to happen, since there'd be a door on US soil to bust down, but if the bad actor is just in some far-away nation that was never supposed to have been permitted to register that domain in the first place, the bar goes up a bit.