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====Censorship via Internet domain names====
On the non-anonymous Internet, a [[domain name]] like "[[example.com]]" is a key to accessing information. The censorship of the Wikileaks website shows that domain names are extremely vulnerable to censorship.{{Citation needed|date=June 2023}} Some domain registrars have suspended customers' domain names even in the absence of a court order.{{Citation needed|date=June 2023}}

For the affected customer, blocking of a domain name is a far bigger problem than a registrar refusing to provide a service; typically, the registrar keeps full control of the domain names in question. In the case of a European travel agency, more than 80 .com websites were shut down without any court process and held by the registrar since then. The travel agency had to rebuild the sites under the .net [[top-level domain]] instead.<ref>Adam Liptak (2008). [https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/04/us/04bar.html A Wave of the Watch List, and Speech Disappears] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170407043030/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/04/us/04bar.html |date=2017-04-07 }}. ''The New York Times'', 2008-03-04. Retrieved 2008-03-09.</ref>

On the other hand, anonymous networks do not rely on [[domain name registrar]]s. For example, Freenet, [[I2P]] and Tor hidden services implement censorship-resistant URLs based on [[public-key cryptography]]: only a person having the correct private key can update the URL or take it down.