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

Post by yearolinuxdsktp » Tue, Jun 30, 2026, 11:13 AM UTC

anilgulecha wrote: post #179

The "one free domain per person" isn't the interesting part really - that will be hard to police unless domain name is a function of ID proof (avoids squatting). 0) The actual intersting part of a new TLD can be growing reputation by post-facto taking away a domain without recourse in case of squatting. Instead of adversarial takedowns (which produce false positives as noted), let anyone challenge an inactive domain…

Post by yoz-y » Tue, Jun 30, 2026, 11:34 AM UTC

hilariously wrote: post #284

mort96 wrote: post #169

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A friend almost failed an IT class because his website didn't render at all in IE6. This was during the time of IE9. The teacher just hadn't updated their browser in a long time. I don't get how you get to be an IT teacher without knowing the most basic troubleshooting steps to get assignments to run.

I left community college after a week because my "computer" teacher required us to change our monitors to 640x480 and print out ever step that we completed in things like Notepad or Configuring the Desktop and then every day we'd punch it out and would add it to a three ring binder of all the things we've done. Full Color.

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jun 30, 2026, 11:52 AM UTC

paulluuk wrote: post #285

mort96 wrote: post #169

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A friend almost failed an IT class because his website didn't render at all in IE6. This was during the time of IE9. The teacher just hadn't updated their browser in a long time. I don't get how you get to be an IT teacher without knowing the most basic troubleshooting steps to get assignments to run.

I assume this was at a highschool and not at university? My IT teacher in highschool was the chemistry teacher, because.. he knew how to use Word, I guess? He knew we were computer nerds so didn't really care about teaching us (we knew more than him anyway). And we didn't mind that he just sat there drinking coffee and reading a book, as it meant we could just play videogames for an hour. Good times.

Post by csense » Tue, Jun 30, 2026, 12:21 PM UTC

mathstuf wrote: post #231

mort96 wrote: post #169

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A friend almost failed an IT class because his website didn't render at all in IE6. This was during the time of IE9. The teacher just hadn't updated their browser in a long time. I don't get how you get to be an IT teacher without knowing the most basic troubleshooting steps to get assignments to run.

Heh…I once was in a state-level coding event (it was a small portion of a larger competition) where half of the test was turning in code on a CD during the competition, with the written half during the event. My CD was deemed unusable for whatever reason (it had worked on XP and Fedora 6 or 7 at home) and didn't count towards my score. I still got second in the event. I declined to continue because I couldn't trust t…

Post by jagged-chisel » Tue, Jun 30, 2026, 12:33 PM UTC

szszrk wrote: post #257

anilgulecha wrote: post #230

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We can get creative. quick ideas: Send it by printed post. pass it around people to people. an email needs to be added in with some process, and can only get one TXT update value a week. Many ways of adding friction to obtaining the updatable value - which a human owning a domain would be happy to do, but a squatter would not want to.

> Send it by printed post that's how one of my local companies tries to force clients in. They removed auth code from their web panels and introduced complex snail-mail procedure. That was clear signal to run, but it took me 6 months to do just the domain transfer.