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MoreOnionsPorfavor: Onionize your website and take back the internet

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Re: MoreOnionsPorfavor: Onionize your website and take back the internet

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Post by eindiran »

daenz wrote: post #2

I'm pro decentralizing the internet, but these movements really need some marketing chops. ".onion" TLD? (Yes I know it has been around for awhile) Think of how a normal person will view a ".onion" domain name. It's nonsensical to the uninitiated.

Increasingly there are full word TLDs (see here: [0]), so I don't think people will find it that weird, especially since most people don't really spend a lot of time looking at the address bar.

The .onion TLD is named for onion routing[1] and has been around for quite a while as you pointed out. If it caught on, I imagine most people would accept the name without much thought. I think the bigger barrier to .onion catching on is getting people to install Tor at all.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_dom...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion_routing

Re: MoreOnionsPorfavor: Onionize your website and take back the internet

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Post by solstice »

daenz wrote: post #2

I'm pro decentralizing the internet, but these movements really need some marketing chops. ".onion" TLD? (Yes I know it has been around for awhile) Think of how a normal person will view a ".onion" domain name. It's nonsensical to the uninitiated.

What about http, ://, www and other TLDs like .co.nz or .ac.uk? All of these were pretty meaningless to initiates of the internet. In this new age of ".pizza" and suchlike, ".onion" doesn't seem much different or weird tbh. (To be clear: I don't think these new tlds are especially good either, but it's the world we live in now.)

Re: MoreOnionsPorfavor: Onionize your website and take back the internet

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Post by danielheath »

vitejose wrote: post #3

I operate a few websites that host static content only. Is there any benefit to setting up onion services for these sites? Or are onion services more valuable for providing interactivity/logins?

If the data might be subject to censorship or spying, yes - using an onion service protects users from having info like “you read about STI treatment” sold to their insurers.

Re: MoreOnionsPorfavor: Onionize your website and take back the internet

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Post by ISL »

daenz wrote: post #2

I'm pro decentralizing the internet, but these movements really need some marketing chops. ".onion" TLD? (Yes I know it has been around for awhile) Think of how a normal person will view a ".onion" domain name. It's nonsensical to the uninitiated.

.tor would seem like it might make sense?

Re: MoreOnionsPorfavor: Onionize your website and take back the internet

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Post by macintux »

solstice wrote: post #5
daenz wrote: post #2

I'm pro decentralizing the internet, but these movements really need some marketing chops. ".onion" TLD? (Yes I know it has been around for awhile) Think of how a normal person will view a ".onion" domain name. It's nonsensical to the uninitiated.

What about http, ://, www and other TLDs like .co.nz or .ac.uk? All of these were pretty meaningless to initiates of the internet. In this new age of ".pizza" and suchlike, ".onion" doesn't seem much different or weird tbh. (To be clear: I don't think these new tlds are especially good either, but it's the world we live in now.)

To me, .onion reminds me too much of The Onion.

Re: MoreOnionsPorfavor: Onionize your website and take back the internet

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Post by catalogia »

daenz wrote: post #2

I'm pro decentralizing the internet, but these movements really need some marketing chops. ".onion" TLD? (Yes I know it has been around for awhile) Think of how a normal person will view a ".onion" domain name. It's nonsensical to the uninitiated.

I think "it's like onions because onions have layers" is probably something that a normal person can come to accept pretty readily.

"Ogres are like onions..."

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