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Re: .self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting

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post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The only mistake was not opening the root namespace altogether. It’s just a money grab.

The only mistake was not putting all US domains under .us, now the US has an an exorbitant privilege to print and enforce rules on new TLDs.

I mean, that wasn’t done by mistake

Re: .self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting

#35
Remember when the .tk TLD became free 20 years ago ? Every hobbyist took one, then scammers followed, then Facebook and antiviruses started blocking it.

I remember publishing a website for a class on my .tk domain, the teacher couldn't open it and I almost got a failing grade because of it.

Re: .self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting

#37
post #17

Site errored out and gave me three different error messages as I reloaded. I guess it's self-hosted on something underpowered, and dynamic where static would do the job?

Indeed, this response is way more than we expected. Trying to set up a web cache now.

Re: .self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting

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post #18
post #7

I've started using .internal

That's no use for self-hosting unless all your users are on your private network.

Tailnet and Magic DNS make it easy to bring other people or devices to your network, including simple authentication mechanisms to know who is who

Re: .self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting

#39

Hold up...why isn't .self listed here: https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db Is this just an idea at this point, or some kind of "you have to use our DNS to resolve .self domains" scheme - ?

This is an idea at this point, the next round of gTLD applications is currently open and we are in the process of applying and we are trying to garner support!

So this is my iCloud on the web for AI agents to pay me for access to my content (Cloudflare allows the bots in upon paying) :-)

Cloudflare offers this now (their Pay to Crawl service) but its not geared towards every human getting paid for their content. As of today Facebook and other social media platforms profit from our content....not us!

Re: .self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting

#40
What is the expected price range for registration and renewal under this TLD?

Will there be any assurance that renewal prices will remain fairly stable, rather than being significantly raised after customers grow attached to their domains (a practice that seems to be common with new gTLDs)?

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