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Aral Balkan<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@codinghorror" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>codinghorror</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://tomkahe.com/@trending_bot" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>trending_bot</span></a></span> Related, longer-term thought, in case it interests you: getting <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@letsencrypt" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>letsencrypt</span></a></span> to work with <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.privacytools.io/@opennic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>opennic</span></a></span> would put us on a path to set domain names free from the commercial system (after which we could try to get the EU to force browsers to support OpenNIC natively).</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/114173316981178689" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.ar.al/@aral/114173316</span><span class="invisible">981178689</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/OpenNIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenNIC</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/LetsEncrypt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LetsEncrypt</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/freeTheDomain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>freeTheDomain</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/domainNames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>domainNames</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>internet</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/identity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>identity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/decentralisation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>decentralisation</span></a></p>
Aral Balkan<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/@zbrando" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>zbrando</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://appdot.net/@morrick" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>morrick</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/@ueeu" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ueeu</span></a></span> You’re not wrong.</p><p>But, looking ahead, we can do so much better than the commercial domain name system.</p><p>Commercial domain names are a gold standard example of artificial scarcity. A domain name registrar cost next to nothing to operate. It’s tiny rows of text in a database. It could easily be free to own your own domain name – a huge part of what constitutes identity – on the Internet.</p><p>In fact, a non-commercial service has been operational for 24 years. It would be trivial to regulate that browsers in the EU implement support for it and work together with, say, <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@letsencrypt" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>letsencrypt</span></a></span> to ensure it can handle TLS.</p><p>That would be an amazing addition to the commons and a future-proof way forward that we could lead on with next to no investment.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/domainNames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>domainNames</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/DNS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DNS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/openNic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>openNic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/LetsEncrypt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LetsEncrypt</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EU</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/commons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>commons</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>internet</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/freedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>freedom</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/ICAAN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ICAAN</span></a></p>
Klaus Zimmermann :unverified:<p>Imagine not being able to update your system and when trying to debug this, you get mansplained about "security" by nobody other than your freaking router:</p><p><a href="https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=47027#p47027" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?p</span><span class="invisible">id=47027#p47027</span></a></p><p>Not my case, fortunately, because I NEVER use my ISP's DNS, I instead use <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/OpenNIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenNIC</span></a>.</p>
B. A. Balackus<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.content.town/@will" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>will</span></a></span><br>Hearing <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.content.town/@bradshoemaker" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bradshoemaker</span></a></span> talk about purchasing possible domains and curious if you have plans to talk about TLDs and ICANN and <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/OpenNIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenNIC</span></a>.org</p>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://macaw.social/@april" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>april</span></a></span> personally, I prefer <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OpenNIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenNIC</span></a> anyway and the sheer fact that some idiot at <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ICANN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ICANN</span></a> thought it's a good idea to allow gTLDs like file extensions is only kept by the absurdity of .gov, .edu &amp; .mil being U.S. - centric if not exclusive...</p><p>What's next? .org becomes exclusive to US non-profits?</p><p>Cuz they did that with .edu!</p>
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