Impressive. Only true domain lovers will concern about the future of the .org TLD. I just made a site for these domain lovers.
https://www.sideplanet.com
How We Saved Dot Org
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#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
You're upset that the EFF isn't able to work miracles? Abolishing intellectual property (which, frankly, sounds like a terrible idea) would be a global effort requiring the invalidation of treaties and battling a nearly infinite war chest because the wealthiest companies in the world rely on it.
> Intellectual Property We've come to call ideas and iterative mutations of such thoughtstuff "property" as if thoughts can be owned. What we call "intellectual property" is more accurately (at least in my current strong conclusion) called monopoly rights. Monopoly rights over the application and commercial profit of such thoughtstuff as a conscious trade-off/government subsidy to provide economic incentive for innov…
Right, and despite all the fury and word salad, it still exists and will continue to do so.
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#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe the best outcome will be that Donuts gobbles up everything, gets sued for being an illegal monopoly, broken up, and then the whole sordid registry system can be replaced.
Now you have me curious - what kind of better replacement do you have in mind?
I can't believe i'm saying this, but... this is probably a good use case for a blockchain with limited committers. Intermediary businesses can form to handle getting the three (or whatever) committers necessary, competition between committers keeps their fees low, competition between intermediary companies keep their fees low, distributed ledger keeps everyone honest about ownership. Do I get my VC check now?
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#105Am I the only one thinking that "organization" is a super-vague term ?
IMHO non-profits should (instead / in addition) register the .ngo/.ong domain...
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#106EFF should "let's encrypt" TLDs... They could buy one or several TLDs and provide it for a reasonable price and not increase the price unless it's really necessary for the operation of the TLD.... I'll leave the details to the experts...
I'd predict this would lead to rampant domain squatting on such a free TLD, which would render the TLD useless
What if it was like a dollar a year with “premium” domains and domains shorter than say five or six characters cost some obscene amount like a thousand dollars a year?
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#107Ethos Capital is a sock puppet entity created in 2019 with the sole purpose of concealing the identity of investors we do not know much about.
The EFF had significant restraint when it comes to talk about Ethos Capital itself.
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#108Am I the only one thinking that "organization" is a super-vague term ? IMHO non-profits should (instead / in addition) register the .ngo/.ong domain...
So you mean 'Non Government' == 'Non Profit'?
I know that the term NGO is used for Non Profits, but strictly speaking I think that comes more from the term 'Organization' (as opposed to company) than from the term 'Non Government'.
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#109Hmm, there's still the issue that both ISOC and ICANN are located in the USA, and – unless they have been granted super-special status by the UN – are subject to USA laws.
As long that is the case, we have an "USAnet", rather than a real Internet.
I can see two ways to deal with this issue :
1.) A UN-funded organization located on "UN soil", ideally far away from the biggest powers (but then close enough to Internet nodes) – maybe Geneva, Switzerland ?
2.) A decentralized system. Freenet / Tor / Blockchain aficionados can have their field day.
In both these cases, the only thing that the organization could do is to keep just enough friction to keep domain scalpers at bay. No censorship whatsoever allowed, if a country wants to block a domain name, they will have to do it on their side.
Yes, this means that there will be pedo / nazi / terrorist / copyright infringement ( / &c.) domains, but you can't have both your freedom of speech cake and eat the censorship too : this is more important than Facebook comments / YouTube videos!
(Hmm, I wonder why isis.org redirects (for me?) to species360.org ?)
Oh, also maybe this organization could keep a database of worldwide judicial decisions about the blocking of domain names.
Also there needs to be enough friction on domain name changes for the judiciary systems to be able to keep up.
Oh, and it would also be responsible for verifying that the .ngo/.ong domains really belong to non-profit, non-governmental organizations.
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#110Another great win for the EFF. We shouldn't forget how much time and effort fighting this kind of thing takes, and we are very lucky to have an organization who's willing to put in the legwork from which all of us are huge beneficiaries. ( Edit: just donated. ) I guess it was implied by the article, but wasn't perfectly clear to me: does this mean that .org just stays with its current holders, ISOC? (Internet Society…
I’m literally wearing (for the first time, by coincidence) my new handy dandy 30y-of-EFF tshirt that I got for supporting them last month. I usually donate to causes and pass on goods because I don’t care for the merch (plus want the money to go all the way). EFF is a brand I want to wear. They’re awesome. I first joined their mailing list ~1996(?) when DMCA was being hashed out. I was too young to know if I was on t…
Oh man, thanks for the heads up! I didn't know they had a merch shop, just snagged the sick DEFCON 26 tee.