> DNS costs money to use (which I argue is not suitable for all uses.) This kind of thinking is a trap that I see many people fall into. Domains cost money because they have to cost money. Human-friendly names are a scarce resource (there can only be one google.com and one @johnsmith). They have value, and the market tends to reach equilibrium. If a scarce resource costs (or is given away for) less than some people a…
I know this is HN but not everything needs to be monetized. There is such a thing as doing something because you want to. People write open source software largely because they want to and if it helps them they might as well let others use it too. There's more than enough unused network resources on the Internet to make a free alternative to DNS. OpenNIC comes fairly close to this but still fails to provide a good re…
It's not whether something should be monetized, but rather about whether it inevitably will. It's not a question of "if", but "by whom", "when" and "how much". Either you do the monetizing, via crypto or otherwise, or you hide your head in the sand, pretend that the issue doesn't exist and let the scalpers get all the profits.