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

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

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Post by psychoslave »

greyface- wrote: post #57

https://hccf.onmy.cloud/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/dot-self.... > Everyone entitled to a subdomain at no cost How are you going to pay for the (substantial) cost of running a TLD without registration fee revenue? Is this a loss leader for other services? Are you operating on a 100% donation model? > No parking, squatting, or reselling How do you plan to tell the difference between a parked/squatted domain and one in…

Might be a public service? I guess many countries already had such a thing with running cost several order higher than such a thing as a TLD, operating for centuries now.

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

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Post by cj »

preisschild wrote: post #101
goldenarm wrote: post #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.

Core memory unlocked Not enough allowance to fund a .com domain, had to use freenom / tk + cloudflare for my first years of self hosting

Double unlock.

In the mid 2000’s, I moderated a domain name discussion forum in exchange for free hosting. “X forum posts per month = x gb of bandwidth”

My goal was to post enough for them to give me WHM access so I could try to resell it.

Those were the days.

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Post by tamimio »

goldenarm wrote: post #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.

tk and cc, the domains i used to use for php reverse shell haha, bring back memories!

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

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Post by myself248 »

HumanCCF wrote: post #58
9dev wrote: post #9

Shotgun on your.self! That’s going to yield a ton of great second level sub domains :)

We are probably going to reserve some of the more obvious ones for specific purposes, e.g. my.self automatically pointing to a homepage on your local network. As we go through the gTLD evaluation process we will be keen to solicit feedback from the community on more specifics!

Hey now!

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

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Post by dinkleberg »

cj wrote: post #112
preisschild wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Core memory unlocked Not enough allowance to fund a .com domain, had to use freenom / tk + cloudflare for my first years of self hosting

Double unlock. In the mid 2000’s, I moderated a domain name discussion forum in exchange for free hosting. “X forum posts per month = x gb of bandwidth” My goal was to post enough for them to give me WHM access so I could try to resell it. Those were the days.

Those were the days indeed. A big part for me is probably because I was a teen at the time with little responsibility, but getting to be a part of the wild west days of the internet was a magical experience.

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

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Post by jrnichols »

skyyler wrote: post #46
jazzyjackson wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

With your hosts file or running a DNS on localist you can do whatever you want

there's a project for getting retro computers connected to an "internet" with 90s/00s services available, and they use .retro on that. it's pretty cute.

This is the first I've heard of this and search results have been fruitless. Where can I find more info on this?
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