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Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)

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Re: Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)

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Post by jrochkind1 »

ssl-3 wrote: post #49
nstory wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here in the Boston area, the first commercial ISP https://www.theworld.com/ appears to still be up and running, and is similarly frozen in time.

What a strange time machine. The website offered to sell unlimited dialup for me, in Ohio, using a local phone number. I Googled that number, and it appears that it may belong to another (related? different?) time machine: https://www.panix.com/dialup/

Very curious if you would actually get a dialup number that worked if you filled out the paperwork. I guess probably not? But I have no idea.

Re: Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)

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Post by ranger_danger »

NetMageSCW wrote: post #131
foresto wrote: post #63

Having a domain under the .us TLD once seemed appealing to me for practical reasons: It's short, consistently inexpensive, and hasn't already sold the vast majority of its useful namespace to squatters. Unfortunately, it forbids WHOIS privacy services, which makes it a privacy and security hazard for personal domains. Pity, that.

Yes, I have a 3 letter .us domain that I’ve had for a while. Hard to get a three letter domain in any other popular TLD.

There are still many thousands of three-letter domains for (third-party) sale on .com/net/org though. Sedo.com lists a handful of .net domains that are under $100. Most are more than that though.

Re: Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)

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Post by yieldcrv »

rootusrootus wrote: post #80
anonu wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's almost no real privacy online in the US. When I search for my name my phone number and almost every address I've ever lived at it is publicly retrievable - on multiple sites. Even with a private WHOIS I get spam from various companies via my registrar asking to speak to me about making a website.

You can get some of the major sources to remove you with a service like Optery [0]. Costs a few bucks, but if you let them work at it a few months you can drop the subscription and the effects will linger for a while before you start finding yourself on public databases again. I used it myself and I have trouble finding information about myself, even with my inside knowledge. If someone is determined enough you proba…

I just can't get myself to pay for this problem that's ultimately a failure of the government and relies on another corporation behaving with my data

fortunately I'm a California resident so looks like that government has passed a solution that's free, thanks for sharing that guys

Re: Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)

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Post by ocdtrekkie »

Barbing wrote: post #114
donmcronald wrote: post #108

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> ICANN DNS became a money grab It’s too bad more people don’t understand how the domain industry is structured under ICANN. IMO, the registries are ICANN’s customers, the registrants are part of the product being sold, and the registrars are a liability shield. One day there will be a grab for .com.

Fun fact (you probably remember), you used to report phishing sites with one simple email and they would actually be taken down. These days I get the feeling a lot of the registrars are essentially/effectively in on it (at least by inaction). A well-run ICANN feels needed, who can track takedown compliance.

The entire domain squatting/parking industry exists because filing an ICANN dispute costs more than paying the squatter. Absolutely insane.

Re: Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)

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Post by [deleted] »

car wrote: post #125

In Germany it is possible to register an ENUM domain for a phone number. This provides a DNS mapping from the E164 number to DNS records, e.g. for IP phones, etc. Decentralized and under user control, no shitty silos like FaceTime, WhatsApp. ENUM stands for “Telephone Number Mapping.” It is essentially a bridge between the world of telecommunications and the Internet. With a single ENUM domain, you can combine all yo…

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Re: Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)

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Post by anamexis »

dsr_ wrote: post #138
pbhjpbhj wrote: post #58

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"can be" is used to list all possible values, which is where the confusion arises. It sounds like: ∀x, x>C v x "Might be", I think would be better.

MAY is the correct choice. https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2119

This is not in the context of a requirement level. The definition of MAY as defined there makes no sense here.

Re: Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)

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Post by edot »

ZeWaka wrote: post #75
anonu wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's almost no real privacy online in the US. When I search for my name my phone number and almost every address I've ever lived at it is publicly retrievable - on multiple sites. Even with a private WHOIS I get spam from various companies via my registrar asking to speak to me about making a website.

It's worth sitting down for an hour and filing a bunch of information redaction requests.

Might help with phone numbers, but addresses are trivial to find and cannot be removed, if you own property in the United States. Every county publishes property records, searchable by name. Unless you own your house with an LLC, if someone knows or can guess the state you live in, they can 1) search on the property records website of the top 10 counties by population, and if that fails 2) expand to searching other counties until you pop up. Not sure how to mitigate this, other than the LLC method.

Re: Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)

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Post by arionhardison »

I'm working on something like this... its: ..codify.city e.g.: https://los-angeles.us.codify.city or https://paris.fr.codify.city etc..... my goal is to replace sites from https://www.civicplus.com/ and https://www.revize.com/ with AI-native interfaces into city services, governments, economies etc... like a local AI-agent Economy managed by actual governing officials etc... but the admin is a separate product ATM.

https://codify.nyc is the one I am going to be launching first, hopefully in a few weeks. I only have 100 or so cities on board and live right now. They have been very useful in understanding all the mechanics and nuance of delivering services at the city/local level.

Your project looks interesting, let me know if you see any place we could work together.

Re: Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)

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Post by foresto »

ranger_danger wrote: post #142
NetMageSCW wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, I have a 3 letter .us domain that I’ve had for a while. Hard to get a three letter domain in any other popular TLD.

There are still many thousands of three-letter domains for (third-party) sale on .com/net/org though. Sedo.com lists a handful of .net domains that are under $100. Most are more than that though.

> for (third-party) sale

Many of us find it unethical to give money to scalpers.

> a handful of .net domains that are under $100

And this is why.

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