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There's a cost to switching. Established links, domain reputation.
Which should have been factored in as a risk from the beginning.
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"Because DNS over HTTPS (DoH) is browser based..." Is DoH browser-based. Optically, yes. Technically, no. I use it outside the browser every day. No disagreement with rest of comment. FWIW, I have run own custom root for decades, creating new "TLDs" and "domainnames" as I please, but also I have experimented with a non-DNS naming system just using a proxy. Maybe this sounds too simple, but the thing is, it is just as…
> Is DoH browser-based. Optically, yes. Technically, no. I use it outside the browser every day. I don't understand what you're trying to say. Firefox and Chrome have an individual setting for DoH that doesn't depend on the underlying OS's DNS configuration/resolver. Therefore, you can run multiple instances of either browser (using profiles) that point to different DoH resolvers or are different from the underlying…
I do understand your point, anyone can run a DoH server and could serve "alternate DNS" names. I just wanted to make clear that DoH is not limited to use with the popular browsers. It can be useful outside the browser.
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They're a monopoly on .com. Reasonable or not, .com is still widely seen as more authoritative than other TLDs, even .net and .org.
So why shouldn't Verisign be able to capture the value they're providing?
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then maybe it should be forbidden to renew domain if you haven't use it for a year instead of increasing prices for everyone, how convenient for domain registrars
How would they define “using it”? I’m guessing there would be easy ways to skirt around any automated system that checks for whether a domain has been used. Update the text on the “for sale” landing page? Look, I used it!
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TFA is the price increase at some random registry called Gandi from $15.50 to $16.59. .com is still $8.88 at Namecheap.
What does TFA mean? Google doesn’t return anything
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> next 50 years (assuming they'd work that long...) I don't think this is reasonable, even if you started working at age 20 at a FAANG, you're not going to work until you're 70. Keep in mind this industry is very ageist, you'd be lucky to even get 30 years of high salary income if you're not exceptionally good. That's assuming you don't burn out. I'm surprised folks still use unrealistic examples such as these to mov…
> Keep in mind this industry is very ageist, you'd be lucky to even get 30 years of high salary income In the valley maybe, at a FAANG. In the regular world, esp F500 companies, there are lots of old folks. I work with several developers in their 60s. Could they get Google to hire them? Maybe not. They're still pulling down middle 100s. > I'm surprised folks still use unrealistic examples such as these You're referri…
> I am not the one who thought that a 50 year time horizon made any sense at all for this discussion, I'm just playing along.
That's my bad, I thought you initially brought up the 50 years of working at a FAANG-level company to not care of TLD fees.