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

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Post by creeble »

oarsinsync wrote: post #304
qq66 wrote: post #244

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The much simpler way to avoid squatting is to make .com domains cost $200 a year. This will instantly end the vast majority of domain squatting on the .com TLD and if people can easily get the .com they need for their business then the other TLDs are not going to have much squatting activity.

> The much simpler way to avoid squatting is to make .com domains cost $200 a year A monopolist hiking prices to this extent will likely see legal action against them. That's a 20x increase you're proposing. It's also unlikely to have a material effect. .com used to cost $75 a year back in the day, and that didn't stop squatters, and high value domain transfer sales. $75 in 1990s dollars is about $150-$190 today.

Source needed: .com domains never cost more than $100/2 years, IIRC.

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

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Post by oarsinsync »

creeble wrote: post #381
oarsinsync wrote: post #304

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The much simpler way to avoid squatting is to make .com domains cost $200 a year A monopolist hiking prices to this extent will likely see legal action against them. That's a 20x increase you're proposing. It's also unlikely to have a material effect. .com used to cost $75 a year back in the day, and that didn't stop squatters, and high value domain transfer sales. $75 in 1990s dollars is about $150-$190 today.

Source needed: .com domains never cost more than $100/2 years, IIRC.

You're right, I'm confusing it for $70 to register, which registered the domain for 2 years.

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

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Post by tuwtuwtuwtuw »

yoz-y wrote: post #333
hilariously wrote: post #284

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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.

640x480 in 16 colors is the resolution as it was prescribed in the Bible.

Terry Davis quote?

> God said 640×480 16 colour is a covenant like circumcision.

https://clotmag.com/oped/deus-ex-machina-deconstructing-digi...

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

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Post by mercutio2 »

2001zhaozhao wrote: post #180

The $1/year numerical .xyz domain is pretty affordable already, and there are multiple providers now with free DNS services.

Yup. $1/year is a great price point for avoiding squatters and proving there’s someone paying attention, truly de minimis.

I’m happy with my .xyz domain for my homelab.

Setting up split horizon DNS was more of a pain than I expected, but it works now over headscale.

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

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Post by dom96 »

SahAssar wrote: post #97
dom96 wrote: post #77

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My guess is by using ID verification similar to how I do it on https://onlyhumanhub.com/

So you have just built a wrapper around https://passportreader.app/ , which itself is reading NFC enabled ID/passports from specific countries. The coverage map is here: https://passportreader.app/coverage . Might be good to know that even in the US this approach would only work for ~50% of people, since a lot of people don't have passports. In most countries this does not work at all, since they don't issue NFC enab…

No humanity verification is perfect. 50% of people is already pretty good.

Really governments need to do better here, and make it possible to do this type of verification using zero knowledge proofs.

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

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Post by dom96 »

kokanee wrote: post #93
dom96 wrote: post #77

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My guess is by using ID verification similar to how I do it on https://onlyhumanhub.com/

I'm curious about how this works, but it doesn't look like I can find out without creating an account. I see that it says "Link your existing social accounts to prove you're not a bot." How does having social media accounts prove I'm not a bot?

If you're interested in detail of how it works, I wrote about it here: https://blog.picheta.me/post/the-future-of-social-media-is-h...

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

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Post by BrandoElFollito »

mort96 wrote: post #169
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.

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.

OTOH this is an opportunity to learn yo add guardrails to the cide to check for browser capabilities and display a page inviting to move to new stuff

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

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Post by BrandoElFollito »

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…

> Sign in with passkeys linked to a national ID

With what?? Please understand that all countries are not like yours. In France this will happen in 2047 if all planets are aligned (they won't be)

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

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Post by tomhow »

dgellow wrote: post #375
tomhow wrote: post #232

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Please don't reply like this to comments like this. Just flag them, and if you're feeling extra-helpful, email us (hn@ycombinator.com).

You're right. Though that was a comment with the n-word and a bunch of other explicits, I think a reaction was warranted. But I will keep that in mind next time

Yeah, comments like that are just trying to get a reaction. Best not to give them oxygen.

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

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Post by noumenon1111 »

moduspol wrote: post #358
Cpoll wrote: post #172

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I had a similar class where they threatened to fail us if we didn't use Dreamweaver and instead wrote our own html.

Hmm. Dreamweaver must be what the cool kids were using instead of Frontpage.

I was a cool kid! I used FrontPage :D
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