[romaniv]

From what I understand, they aren't located in Libya. Would you find it amazing if a war some middle-eastern country shut down Gmail?

I think the moral of the story here is that an important system like DNS should be distributed (real distributed, not the kind of distributed it is right now).

[eli]

The DNS for .ly is distributed. The point of failure was the registrar.

[jarin]

Is it possible after registration to transfer your domain to a registrar that isn't accredited for that particular TLD?

[romaniv]

I'm not sure why registrar would not be considered a part of DNS.