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Price increase on .io domains on January 1, 2022 (Renewal: $55.00)

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Re: Price increase on .io domains on January 1, 2022 (Renewal: $55.00)

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Post by jayshua »

maccolgan wrote: post #158
ethbr0 wrote: post #139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Communism is embedded in the core Internet protocols. And "we've" been doing our best to build a capitalist system on top of it ever since. :)

How is state ownership of the means of production embedded in the core Internet protocols?

Pretty sure that's socialism. Communism is envisioned as a stateless society. Which is kind of what the internet is. There's standards bodies, but they don't really have any enforcement power. And ICANN, one of the few bodies with actual power, (by controlling domain name distribution) leads to problems like in this article.

Re: Price increase on .io domains on January 1, 2022 (Renewal: $55.00)

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Post by ethbr0 »

maccolgan wrote: post #158
ethbr0 wrote: post #139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Communism is embedded in the core Internet protocols. And "we've" been doing our best to build a capitalist system on top of it ever since. :)

How is state ownership of the means of production embedded in the core Internet protocols?

Anarcho-communism, not Marxism–Leninism.

Re: Price increase on .io domains on January 1, 2022 (Renewal: $55.00)

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Post by AnIdiotOnTheNet »

maccolgan wrote: post #158
ethbr0 wrote: post #139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Communism is embedded in the core Internet protocols. And "we've" been doing our best to build a capitalist system on top of it ever since. :)

How is state ownership of the means of production embedded in the core Internet protocols?

State ownership is merely one interpretation of the base communist concept of communal ownership. The internet is largely run on protocols built organically by the people using them and only later codified into standards by a committee of interested parties.

Re: Price increase on .io domains on January 1, 2022 (Renewal: $55.00)

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Post by lostlogin »

jjoonathan wrote: post #134
Cerium wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ethos Capital has a mortgage operation. My experience with them lead me to the conclusion that their name does not imply "ethical".

The sunnier the name, the darker the reality.

The inverse of this doesn’t hold unfortunately. Blackwater sounded like a load of bad guys and behaved like it too.

Re: Price increase on .io domains on January 1, 2022 (Renewal: $55.00)

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Post by Zababa »

ethbr0 wrote: post #139
csomar wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What’s the next step? Communism for the Internet?

Communism is embedded in the core Internet protocols. And "we've" been doing our best to build a capitalist system on top of it ever since. :)

> Communism is embedded in the core Internet protocols.

Could you expand on that? People tend to use widely different definitions of "communism" so I'm not sure what you mean by that.

Re: Price increase on .io domains on January 1, 2022 (Renewal: $55.00)

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Post by xxpor »

baybal2 wrote: post #51

Why .io domains are so popular?

For me personally, it came down to the fact that $firstname.io was available, but .com, .org, .net, and whatever else I checked wasn't. Kind of regret it now, not so much for the price but because of the questionable political situation with the continued availability of the TLD doing forward.

Re: Price increase on .io domains on January 1, 2022 (Renewal: $55.00)

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Post by paulryanrogers »

WhyNotHugo wrote: post #90
cj wrote: post #15

How do we create an incentive model that kills the “parked domain” industry without out pricing people who want to host a legitimate non-commercial personal site? At first glance I was happy to see the headline because it means it’ll be more expensive for squatters to profit, but then I do sympathize with people using these domains for legitimate non-commercial purposes.

In some countries, if you want to register a domain that's parked, you may appeal to the registrar, and they will take it away from the parker (unless they're legitimately planning to use it). The conditions of use of the domain state that you will give them _some_ use. "Planning to resell it" it is not considered a valid use. It's a public resource after all. As an analogy, imagine someone buys all the housing in to…

Perhaps there could be a grace period? If you're clearly not using it within 6 months then it reverts and you get a partial refund?

Re: Price increase on .io domains on January 1, 2022 (Renewal: $55.00)

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Post by Pxtl »

cj wrote: post #15

How do we create an incentive model that kills the “parked domain” industry without out pricing people who want to host a legitimate non-commercial personal site? At first glance I was happy to see the headline because it means it’ll be more expensive for squatters to profit, but then I do sympathize with people using these domains for legitimate non-commercial purposes.

> without out pricing people who want to host a legitimate non-commercial personal site

Don't buy a .io domain for your personal site - stick to the gTLDs or national TLDs that are run by trusted governments (for reference, I have a .ca TLD because I trust the Canadian government to keep the cost roughly competitive with gTLDs). ccTLDs that have been bought by private companies are essentially privatized in a way that gTLDs and government-run ccTLDs are not.

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