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The 1.111B class of $0.99 .xyz domains white paper

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Re: The 1.111B class of $0.99 .xyz domains white paper

#31

Post by ipaddr »

warent wrote: post #4
yuliyp wrote: post #2

Why 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

.onion domains are free.

Re: The 1.111B class of $0.99 .xyz domains white paper

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Post by tdeck »

yuliyp wrote: post #2

Why 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.

I searched for the word "subdomain" in that PDF and got zero results; it's not even addressed.

Re: The 1.111B class of $0.99 .xyz domains white paper

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Post by warent »

ipaddr wrote: post #31
warent wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

.onion domains are free.

Yes... in the same way that you can set up a street food cart in the middle of nowhere without needing special permits. But good luck making any kind of meaningful change in your life with that unless your food cart happens to sell meth

Re: The 1.111B class of $0.99 .xyz domains white paper

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Post by hoseja »

Clewza313 wrote: post #7

A multi-page PDF of monospaced green text on black, looking like it escaped from an Apple ][? I found this literally unreadable on mobile, and would appreciate it if somebody has a pointer to the content in a sane format.

Better than RFCs with their 80-char monospace with explicit newlines and in-source page headers and footers.

Re: The 1.111B class of $0.99 .xyz domains white paper

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Post by 5e92cb50239222b »

hoseja wrote: post #37
Clewza313 wrote: post #7

A multi-page PDF of monospaced green text on black, looking like it escaped from an Apple ][? I found this literally unreadable on mobile, and would appreciate it if somebody has a pointer to the content in a sane format.

Better than RFCs with their 80-char monospace with explicit newlines and in-source page headers and footers.

Those have the excuse of being written 40 years ago. Modern RFC are much better:

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9000.html

Re: The 1.111B class of $0.99 .xyz domains white paper

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Post by 5e92cb50239222b »

jordemort wrote: post #15
Clewza313 wrote: post #7

A multi-page PDF of monospaced green text on black, looking like it escaped from an Apple ][? I found this literally unreadable on mobile, and would appreciate it if somebody has a pointer to the content in a sane format.

Yeah, calling it a "white" paper is a bit of a stretch. I kind of want to try printing it, but toner isn't cheap.

Invert the colors and print. qpdfview can do that, for instance.
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