Post by @andrewg@mastodon.ie

You do not own your DNS name, you rent it. And it can be taken from you at any time, for no reason at all.
https://neil.fraser.name/news/2026/09/03/

Neil Fraser: News: .name Termination

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Aral Balkan

@aral@mastodon.ar.al 10 hr. ago

@andrewg @samir Bloody hell, I’m so sorry. Sounds like it’s begging for a class action? I mean they’re destroying peoples’ web presence.

Also, I’m so fucking glad I decided to go with Web Numbers for the Small Web.

https://ar.al/2025/06/25/web-numbers/

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zbrando

@zbrando@social.vivaldi.net 8 hr. ago

@aral We need a public EU entity for web numbers.
@andrewg @samir

Aral Balkan

@aral@mastodon.ar.al 7 hr. ago

@zbrando @andrewg @samir Do you mean a directory? If so, no need to reimplement DNS 😊 (The whole idea is that address books can be decentralised.) However, a public EU ACME provider would be amazing.

zbrando

@zbrando@social.vivaldi.net 2 hr. ago

@aral I only now read your post better and realized that web numbers are decentralized. Sorry. 😬