edit/solution:
Several people claim PIR, the US organisation that manages the .org TLD, for being ultimately responsible.
They have a contact form on their website: https://pir.org/contact/
We should pepper them with complaints.*
Also there’s a pretty informative write-up here.
So yeah, antifascism is now terrorism according to the US gov.
Their website and mailing server has been taken down in Europe, too now.
Are they still willing to kiss his ass, or does the USA have the power to do that globally?
Only yesterday most DNS services allowed it (OpenNIC, NextDNS, and the big ones).
Now they all return this:
whois autistici.org (edited)
Registrar URL: http://www.gandi.net/
Registrar: Gandi SAS
Registrar Abuse Contact Email: abuse@support.gandi.net
Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +33.170377661
Domain Status: serverHold https://icann.org/epp#serverHold
Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited
Domain Status: serverTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#serverTransferProhibited
Domain Status: serverUpdateProhibited https://icann.org/epp#serverUpdateProhibited
URL of the ICANN Whois Inaccuracy Complaint Form: https://icann.org/wicf/
Check out these links, it’s bad:
serverHold https://icann.org/epp#serverHold
clientTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited
serverTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#serverTransferProhibited
serverUpdateProhibited https://icann.org/epp#serverUpdateProhibited
One can log a complaint here but all the form links resolve to my.site.com. Which is invalid.
Question
Where (in Europe or globally) can I log a complaint resp. protest?
What is autistici.org
It’s the Italian volunteer technology collective Autistici/Inventati. Has been around for decades.
There’s been some reports on the fediverse during the past days, and personally I’ve been using them for years. Among other things they provide free email accounts for people who ask.
https://piefed.zip/c/privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com/p/1770717/trump-admininistration-has-designated-the-italian-pro-privacy-and-anticapitalist-collectiv
https://piefed.zip/c/technology@piefed.social/p/1767731/united-states-sanctions-autistici-inventati-for-supporting-far-left-terrorism
https://piefed.zip/c/hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se/p/1773823/autistici-inventati-s-main-org-domain-goes-dark-after-us-terrorism-designation
And of course their own blog post about it:
https://cavallette.noblogs.org/2026/08/10076
edit1:
Since their registrar is Gandi, I think it makes sense to log a complaint with them even if they aren’t ultimately responsible:
abuse@support.gandi.net
https://helpdesk.gandi.net/hc/en-us/requests/new
* and not ICANN. I have no idea how these things work internally; maybe ICANN defers power over such things to these TLD-orgas and avoiding US-controled TLDs is enough for the time being.
I would hate to think that the US can control ALL domains by bullying ICANN into submission.
I’m not an expert on the global legality or anything, but it looks like DNS is handled by ICANN
Even though they’re a global group, ICANN is headquartered in the USA, which means they’re probably obligated (legally, not morally) to carry out the block
It’s still bullshit, but it is what it is
Yeah. What worries me even more is that one cannot complain; the links on this page, to the actual complaint forms, are invalid.
What is autistici.org?
In a nutshell, A/I provides services like email, web hosting, and blogs. They are financed by donations, and their policy requires that users are against fascism, racism, militarism, sexism, homophobia, and transphobia. They don’t allow commercial use of their services either. A/I is also anticapitalist in the sense that they don’t like the disparate economic inequality and the current state of the world.
The U.S. has labeled them as a “global terrorist organisation”, in the same category as Al-Qaeda. The reason? They support “far-left extremist antifa terrorists”. In normal person talk, the Trump admin is suppressing them for being against fascism and inequality.
A/I has denied the claims by the U.S. government.
I also use their email service, so this really sucks! It’s also a bit harrowing how they can censor something like this so quickly without any discussion in court.
Everything is available at inventati.org!
Since I solely use their aliases on other domains, which are not (yet) blocked, I guess I got lucky for now.
But my will to protest has been awoken.edit: since the ultimate decision seems to be with the keepers of the TLD .org this could prove to become problematic, too.
Good point.
It’s the Italian volunteer technology collective Autistici/Inventati.
There’s been some reports on the fediverse during the past days, and personally I’ve been using them for years. Among other things they provide free email accounts for people who ask.
https://piefed.zip/c/privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com/p/1770717/trump-admininistration-has-designated-the-italian-pro-privacy-and-anticapitalist-collectiv
https://piefed.zip/c/technology@piefed.social/p/1767731/united-states-sanctions-autistici-inventati-for-supporting-far-left-terrorism
https://piefed.zip/c/hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se/p/1773823/autistici-inventati-s-main-org-domain-goes-dark-after-us-terrorism-designationAnd of course their own blog post about it:
https://cavallette.noblogs.org/2026/08/10076Jesus Christ, this is bad…
Hey America, FUCK YOU!!!
Thank you for sharing my sentiment.
Hang on a minute, this looks familiar…
No problems here though, more awareness about this is always better! Still kind of insane the U.S. gov can just designate an online service as a “global terrorist organisation” and block them with DNS.
https://cavallette.noblogs.org/2026/08/10076
from A/I: “Antifascism and anticapitalism are not terrorism. Protesting is not terrorism. And everyone has the right to speak out and to struggle for humanity.”
Given ICANN is a bunch of Trump cocksuckers, the only alternative is to switch to, well, an alternative to DNS. Or at least an alternative central authority.