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

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Post by koolala »

IgorPartola wrote: post #113
sudonem wrote: post #103

We should probably just bring back Geocities at this point.

Neocities exists and you are welcome to it :)

Their free terms are kind of bad. They use CORS security feature to block you from loading content from other sites. It doesn't cost them anything to let your site link outside content so they are only doing it make the free tier bad so people upgrade.

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Post by jazzyjackson »

jklinger410 wrote: post #43
quotemstr wrote: post #12

ICANN and its consequences have been a disaster for the internet namespace.

This is just a fact. It's a ponzi scheme.

unless it's promising a return on investment funded by new entrants to the scheme it's not a ponzi. Managing TLDs is just a plain old service. If you want to set people up with a different solution to planting a flag in a global namespace you're free to do so (.eth was an interesting attempt) but you are competing with one hell of a 'network effect'

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Post by dokyun »

Sophira wrote: post #165
kemotep wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

.zip was especially egregious. No one should have allowed that to happen.

There are three TLDs I block on my computer completely, and all of them are file extensions - .zip, .md, and .mov. (Yes, the domain "readme.md" exists. Fortunately, whoever owns it is not using their power for evil and does not have any webserver there... but I'm not risking it.)

What do you have against Moldova?

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Post by vasco »

dcow wrote: post #204
gerdesj wrote: post #158

Earlier quoted context omitted.

.io is (British) Indian Ocean (Territory).

I always thought these TLDs were a flight risk to be used in any serious capacity. What if the random state decides you/your business are in violation of [whatever] and kick you off?

What if an elephant steps on the power cable to the server room?

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Post by NewJazz »

dokyun wrote: post #213
Sophira wrote: post #165

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are three TLDs I block on my computer completely, and all of them are file extensions - .zip, .md, and .mov. (Yes, the domain "readme.md" exists. Fortunately, whoever owns it is not using their power for evil and does not have any webserver there... but I'm not risking it.)

What do you have against Moldova?

They're unlucky, no EU for you.

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

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Post by HumanCCF »

anilgulecha wrote: post #202
ipaddr wrote: post #181

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sounds like a bad domain for self hosting. You have to update txt records randomly and your domain can be taken for whatever reason. Whatever value you build goes away if you are inactive. You cannot transfer ownership killing any value you added.

Hence the "in the first year or two". Some more human effort to showcase proof early on, then the domain is solidified for you like iwth any other registrar. This is something like captcha/bcrypt - a single instance isn't a burden, but doing it at scale is costly. > You cannot transfer ownership killing any value you added I think this is by design. The domain should be for personal use - hence free.

Exactly this, the goal is to design a TLD according to human-centered principles. That is, we are assuming (and enforcing) that every endpoint using this domain will be some relatively small-scale environment for personal use. This is what will allow us to provide a lot of neat functionality but only at that scale.
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