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Raising the price for tld would actually be a good thing, as it would make "domain investing" (domain hoarding) unprofitable. Let's say a .com costs $1,000 per year. For a legitimate business / organization, that is a trivial cost. For a domain hoarder, that makes keeping domains by and large unprofitable. Killing this parasitic activity is a good thing.
Raising the price for tld would actually be a good thing, as it would make "domain investing" (domain hoarding) unprofitable. Let's say a .com costs $1,000 per year. For a legitimate business / organization, that is a trivial cost. For a domain hoarder, that makes keeping domains by and large unprofitable. Killing this parasitic activity is a good thing.
The .org domain is a tenth the size (about 14 million domains) so it's possible that a massive price hike could go through with no one able to stop it--as we're discussing here--but in doing so, you've thrown the baby out with the bath water and made a whole lot of historical domains with no commercial purpose (remember that .org has usually been where "non-business" groups and individuals register) prohibitively expensive in order to tackle a speculative problem.
This makes me think of ENS project (based on Ethereum) that is making a decentralized TLD. The registry is managed automatically by a smart contract. Pros? The conditions are equal to all users. Cons? It is a wild west style registry with no governance besides the little the automated algorithm offers. They're goal, if I understood correctly, is having .eth TLD managed by this decentralized registry. It can be an int…
Raising the price for tld would actually be a good thing, as it would make "domain investing" (domain hoarding) unprofitable. Let's say a .com costs $1,000 per year. For a legitimate business / organization, that is a trivial cost. For a domain hoarder, that makes keeping domains by and large unprofitable. Killing this parasitic activity is a good thing.
So keeping the domain for my primary email address that I’ve used for 15 years is “hoarding” now?
Every few months, I get e-mails asking if I'll sell one or the other for a small sum or donate the domain to the group that's asking. I used to reply and politely decline but the vitriol about my "pointlessly" keeping a domain that I'm "obviously not using" that inevitably comes back now has me shift-Delete e-mails like that. The times, they have changed.
0 - And getting a .net meant showing you were an actual Network Operator. Anybody else remember FTPing the template down from internic.net and sending it to hostmaster and waiting two months for the zone delegation?
The letter itself: https://domainnamewire.com/wp-content/ICA-Letter-to-ICANN-Bo... [PDF]
I have certainly taken the internet's infrastructure for granted at times. Can someone who follows this more closely say something about how this is likely to play out? The profit motive is helpful in some areas, but it can just wreck service-related fields.
So we have things like Tor, which makes a PKI based .onion TLD. What's stopping Us (the people) from making our own TLDs?
It really just is a massive amount of groupthink, inertia, and acceptance of who dns is... right?
And with IP6 seems like it'd be a wild west on all sorts of TLDs.. But we have these monolithic orgs holding us all back. Hell, I know it's orthogonal to TLDs, but we even had the ANPR ip space sold partially to Amazon ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20475855 ). Bluntly stated, these orgs that manage underlying infra aren't trustworthy. And that goes without stating ICANN and all those woes.
This makes me think of ENS project (based on Ethereum) that is making a decentralized TLD. The registry is managed automatically by a smart contract. Pros? The conditions are equal to all users. Cons? It is a wild west style registry with no governance besides the little the automated algorithm offers. They're goal, if I understood correctly, is having .eth TLD managed by this decentralized registry. It can be an int…
Raising the price for tld would actually be a good thing, as it would make "domain investing" (domain hoarding) unprofitable. Let's say a .com costs $1,000 per year. For a legitimate business / organization, that is a trivial cost. For a domain hoarder, that makes keeping domains by and large unprofitable. Killing this parasitic activity is a good thing.
Speaking of parasitic activity ...
Having a crazy thought here... So we have things like Tor, which makes a PKI based .onion TLD. What's stopping Us (the people) from making our own TLDs? It really just is a massive amount of groupthink, inertia, and acceptance of who dns is... right? And with IP6 seems like it'd be a wild west on all sorts of TLDs.. But we have these monolithic orgs holding us all back. Hell, I know it's orthogonal to TLDs, but we ev…