This has (sort of) been tried - .xyz were available for a penny each at some point. https://medium.com/@DarrylLopes/why-i-registered-20-000-xyz-...
The 1.111B class of $0.99 .xyz domains white paper
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
As a teenager making $5.50 and later a whopping $5.75/hr working in retail, I never bought a domain or hosting, as they were outside of my budget. At the time (late 90s) domains were $14.95 on sale, and regularly $19.95. It wasn't until college that I had enough available resources to buy a domain, and at the time I went ahead and bought 5 years. I probably missed out on 3 or 4 years of my life when I had virtually u…
It was worse than that. I recall domains being $70 for 2 years. This is confirmed in the Wikipedia page for Network Solutions, who held a monopoly on registration at the time. “Following the acquisition by SAIC, the NSF gave Network Solutions authority to charge for domain name registrations. Network Solutions imposed a charge of $100 for two years registration. 30% of this revenue went to the NSF to create an "Inter…
Wow! I never heard about this. It happened only a few years after I was born. Back in '97, probably only the nerdiest of nerds would have cared about it, so I'm surprised that the judge(s) over this case ruled correctly given how new the technology was. Is there an article about it? Seems like a fascinating topic
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#23You can buy abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvw.xyz for only $63K USD!
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are loads of free DNS services that hand out subdomains at no cost.
Free subdomains and domains out of your control like tk/cf/ga are somewhat different from a full domain subject to registrar rules.
I've seen some cc TLDs with a USD price for foreign buyers and a local currency price for local buyers where the foreign price converts to 10x the local price.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are loads of free DNS services that hand out subdomains at no cost.
Free subdomains and domains out of your control like tk/cf/ga are somewhat different from a full domain subject to registrar rules.
The .xyz registry is under no obligation to you to continue your registration. In a year they could refuse renewals and reregister (at no cost) the domains to themselves.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
As a teenager making $5.50 and later a whopping $5.75/hr working in retail, I never bought a domain or hosting, as they were outside of my budget. At the time (late 90s) domains were $14.95 on sale, and regularly $19.95. It wasn't until college that I had enough available resources to buy a domain, and at the time I went ahead and bought 5 years. I probably missed out on 3 or 4 years of my life when I had virtually u…
It was worse than that. I recall domains being $70 for 2 years. This is confirmed in the Wikipedia page for Network Solutions, who held a monopoly on registration at the time. “Following the acquisition by SAIC, the NSF gave Network Solutions authority to charge for domain name registrations. Network Solutions imposed a charge of $100 for two years registration. 30% of this revenue went to the NSF to create an "Inter…
I paid something like $79/year to register steve.org.uk via network solutions. My memory is that I struggled for a while in registering it, and I had to find a local fax machine to send some kind of "proof" to them too.
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#27Why would someone want this? If I need a database of devices in DNS I can just buy one domain and create subdomains for each device myself. It'll cost way less than $0.99/device/year.
In developing countries at least it seems like it could be a really big deal. When a daily wage is $5 USD, making a domain $0.99 is much more friendly and encouraging, the difference of two days wages vs. a fifth of a day
Which countries have these salaries? I often notice these countries have almost no network connectivity.
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#28how's that easier than just using the IP ?
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Free subdomains and domains out of your control like tk/cf/ga are somewhat different from a full domain subject to registrar rules.
The .xyz registry is under no obligation to you to continue your registration. In a year they could refuse renewals and reregister (at no cost) the domains to themselves.
The counterpoint to this is that it's exactly the same for free domains and free subdomains but you get even less rights/privileges/whatever
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#30This is so stupid.
If you want to assign IoT devices unique domain names, don't start with someone else's TLD. Provision your own and assign based on a database.
Imagine ".device" as a TLD, where every domain maps to a device. You could sell them at $0.01/domain and let the registration last forever.
Provision entire blocks of them, even.