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Folks have pointed out that in the current state of ... /waves around .. that it might be a good idea for US based institutions to reconsider hosting sites on non-US country code top-level domains (ccTLD) such as .io (Indian Ocean, going away soon anyway), .it (Italy), and .ai (Anguilla)

One that always bugged me was various Mississippi Gov departments using .ms which belongs to Montserrat. In light of current events these might have more risk than they did before. It looks like most of the State of MS related sites are now forwarders/shorteners for the real sites but there are plenty of official sites for MS counties as well as various private orgs that are still fully hosted on .ms domains.

Search: mississippi site:.ms

This happens for other states to various degrees as well. In some cases it's mostly private company domains and in others there are a few official state domains.

Arizona / Azerbaijan
Search: Arizona site:.az

Georgia / Gabon
Search: georgia site:.ga

Idaho / Indonesia
Search: idaho site:.id

Louisiana / Laos
Search: Louisiana site:.la

Maine / Montenegro
Search: Maine site:.me

etc. etc.

#security #risk