Registry Suspension as Choke‑Point

Domain registries and TLD operators are an underappreciated escalation vector: a court order or pressure campaign that forces a registry to set serverHold can make a site globally unreachable even without platform takedowns or hosting seizures. The Anna's Archive .org suspension shows registries can become the decisive operational lever in copyright and anti‑DRM enforcement against large archival projects. — If registries are routinized as enforcement levers, debates about internet governance, jurisdiction, and due process must include TLD operators and the standards that trigger registry‑level actions.