Fuck you very very much, VeriSign.
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"I didn't trust Verisign who was given the privilege of registering massive amounts of DNS names and sucking in rent money for it. So I asked the people who gave Verisign that permission, and they told me Global Name Registry would totally not screw me over. Then Verisign used all that money to buy the Global Name Registry, and screwed me over! Who could have seen this coming?"
@p4bl0 This event feeds into my natural mistrust of the artificial scarcity generated by ICANN, and I somehow have a bizarre affinity towards the TOR hidden services, despite the fact that I have never hosted or visited one [that you know about]. Maybe I just want any kind of decentralized addressing scheme that cannot be hijacked by chokepoint capitalism.
I have! It doesn't work good though, because TOR. But it's there! Read my stories in complete privacy!
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> artificial scarcity generated by ICANN
The opposite. They for a few bucks more they had blown the namespace to be untenable. Just in time at which billions of people were deeducated to the point many does not know now what the address bar is.
> I just want any kind of decentralized addressing scheme that cannot be hijacked
https://humancolossus.foundation/blog/platformless-messaging-that-doesnt-need-a-platform
Your welcome ;)
@ohir Thanks for the link. I was completely unaware.
One cannot sell a single word for millions of dollars without artificial scarcity. No matter how many stupid vanity TLDs they create, they still control the authoritative root--the one, artificially scarce, DNS root zone.
Sure, there are alternative roots that try to run their own TLDs, but without the cooperation of Google, Microsoft, and Apple, tough to get adoption.
@log
> artificial scarcity
Scarcity ended, not by accident, somewhen in late aughties/mid tens with the G search engine being the means to discover. By the end of tens no one but some us nerds typed into the address bar the url, "they" put there the G grab call.
Your precious well-thought of and descriptive domain name was not what it was, at least without SEO. For a while it mattered as a part of your email identity, then it was intentionally taken off by the "smart" plan of making a mail service anybody can spam other mail providers from but no one can get their spam into... And now 70% individuals were pushed to the at-gmail.com not by a 'free' bait, but by the spam bat.
So no, there is no scarcity. Population unlearned what the domain name identity means. Now most of them even do not have "address bar" they, if they still know how to type, they have a one giant search engine bar, recently renamed to "ask artificial idiot" bar.
Ask non-techies around whether they know what https means, or where a domain name they would type (if they knew what it once upon a time was).
