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But does the money come from Microsoft or from GitHub? In a lot of the large companies I've worked, money is siloed from one operating unit to the next. They would send bills between units and sometimes even departments. The larger the company, the more common this seemed. It's not one giant piggy bank.
Does it really matter? Surely $11k is still a tiny amount for GitHub.
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It's not. You can make your own DNS server and sell records to anyone you want. You just have to convince users to type in your address instead of 8.8.8.8.
Realistically, how could a project be setup around this? I mean, how do we get everyday normal people to use it? Its been attempted before (namecoin etc)...but maybe some advantage could be given to make it more attractive.
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The rich get first pick. How very capitalist.
The auction isn't designed to be fair for all, it's designed to allocate domains efficiently (in the economic sense). Mr. mslev does not consider [hisfirstname].dev to be worth $11k, so he will not buy it yet. But someone else might consider [hisfirstname].dev to be worth $11k, so they will buy it. However, if nobody else values [hisfirstname].dev much, then Mr. mslev will buy it when it costs $12 (or earlier, if he…
No one has got "null.dev". I'm disappointed.
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Probably the former as it doesn’t require as much aggrandizement. I wonder whether a different approach would work. Instead of basing TLD name spacing on nebulous terms (com,net,org,io,edu,etc) create a naming system that better reflects the real world. The abstracted terms lead to clashing. So addressing actually reflects physical addressing. There’s only ever going to be one company at Apple’s corporate address. No…
We could just give everyone who wants a domain a UUID. My site could be 'uuid://09953e01-8164-4e40-8504-ed5507b50b03'. This seems to solve all of your complaints. No clashing, reflects the real world (names are all meaningless is reality, and physical locations are nebulous). > There’s only ever going to be one company at Apple’s corporate address. On the other hand, there are corporate addresses that have many compa…
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Oh, interesting, yes this is "mauritius" in Spanish a not so common name. I didn't know this, thank you for pointing it out. I guess that list is recent as mauricio.com and mauricio.co belongs to regular people and are currently working. Do you happen to have a link to said list? A quick googling returned nothing relevant for me.
I believe item #3 on this page is relevant: https://www.icann.org/resources/country-territory-names#rese...
ICANN definitely went overboard on these required reservations, but of course we have no choice but to comply.
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The `.test` and `.localhost` TLDs are already reserved for such purposes: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2606
Interesting. Because my /etc/hosts file had the following as a default: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost ::1 localhost.localdomain localhost I thought it was `.localdomain` that was reserved.
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Try to register through Gandi. They give you options that decrease in price all the way down to ~$16 -- that's the "get it when it GAs" price. If someone scoops it up before you, you're refunded. Otherwise, it's yours. I managed to get .dev, and it's a somewhat common last name, for $133.50 on the "GA" pricing. I expect someone will grab it before then. But if not...
It'll be 12$ on get.dev once it hits GA.
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The rich get first pick. How very capitalist.
It's much more fair this way. If domains were cheap right away, bots would buy all them up. This gives people the chance to buy a domain- this round is more for businesses, but future rounds in the hundred of dollars will be better for the average person.
> If domains were cheap right away, bots would buy all them up.
No. Bots would buy them all up if bots were allowed to buy them all up. It's laughably easy to prevent bots from buying domain names if you don't want bots to buy domain names.
> This gives people the chance to buy a domain
This gives rich people/businesses the chance to buy a domain.
> future rounds in the hundred of dollars will be better for the average person.
After the rich have had their pick. Again, I don't see how you can with a straight face call this fair.
Here's a suggestion: Offer domains to all humans who can pay a reasonable non-refundable application fee. Block bots. When a domain receives more than one offer, randomly assign it to an applicant. Block domain transfers permanently to prevent squatters. Let any domain that isn't renewed fall back into the pool and become available (again to a randomly assigned new owner).
I'm sure there are pitfalls doing it this way, but it took me a minute to come up with that. A few hours of thought, some robust debate, and I'm certain we can come up with a fairer way to assign domain names.