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> in the Internet Archive I would wager that 95% of web users do not even know that IA exists, let alone that they can use it. > Does it matter than what the current namespace is? As long as it's the only thing a browser will consider to retrieve information, yes. Which is why cool URIs don't change.
> I would wager that 95% of web users do not even know that IA exist You are far too optimistic. It's probably more like 99.999999%
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The problem is you can't move a domain once you've established it. I'm stuck on byuu.org for life. There's 15 years worth of links to it scattered across the web that would all go dark. Or more precisely, that would all suddenly point at spam. I could never get most of them updated. Even my subdomain from my previous host from 15 years ago is squatted to this day to serve up advertising. It's even aware of the softwa…
There are many examples that I am currently too lazy to point at that clearly prove that "lifetime license" or "lifetime guarantee" are promises that are basically never kept. Your idea would turn into yet another way to extract even more money from customers without actually bringing additional value (or guarantees) to the table. :(
Not in the parachute selling business...
Could this situation be improved/eliminated when we move from TCP/IP to NDN (Named Data Network)? In NDN, you don't request data from a specific host, hence no need to specify the receiving machine's IP, indeed, you send the packet to a p2p network, another with certain data / signature can answer your request.
*if?
This is basically never going to happen. TCP is too entrenched.
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I have some familiarity with the .com/.net stuff Yes the registry is incredibly cheap to run, it’s the name servers themselves that are so expensive (from what I understand this is partially due to uptime requirements.)
Can you clarify a bit here? I believe most people, when executing a name look up, will usually just end up talking to one of a battery of ISP provided DNS servers. So while the registry's name servers need to feed those servers (and probably be heavily redundant and reliable) they wouldn't actually end up handling an insane amount of traffic. I'm actually a bit curious now if there are any sorts of requirements on ho…
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Switching out a computer's DNS root zone is a small operation.
Managing a substitute to ICANN, how much could that really cost? A few million a year?
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I have some familiarity with the .com/.net stuff Yes the registry is incredibly cheap to run, it’s the name servers themselves that are so expensive (from what I understand this is partially due to uptime requirements.)
Can you clarify a bit here? I believe most people, when executing a name look up, will usually just end up talking to one of a battery of ISP provided DNS servers. So while the registry's name servers need to feed those servers (and probably be heavily redundant and reliable) they wouldn't actually end up handling an insane amount of traffic. I'm actually a bit curious now if there are any sorts of requirements on ho…
There are a ton of ISPs, and many of them run regional recursive servers. Each of those servers is going to see a ton of different domains that they need to query at the registry servers. Most registries are serving glue records with a 1-3 day TTL, but ISP caches may not have enough memory to keep the long tail names in cache for that long, and the long tail is long. There's millions of domain names to query the registry servers for.
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Would it be any different in a non-capitalist world? If we’re being honest, corruption eventually permeates everything given time. IMO the biggest difference between capitalism and socialism is the massive centralization of power in socialist systems. The effects of corruption tend to be much worse the more power is concentrated. These systems of finite resource distribution are ultimately just hacks to mitigate the…
Capitalism is a system created by and for sociopaths. It doesn't get much worse than that.
> Ethos ... could use its power to sell the browsing data of users of .orgs Is this possible? Can all top-level domain name owners view all browsing data on their domain?