Re: .bbs tld?

On 10/12/21 3:06 PM, Grant Taylor wrote:
> On 10/12/21 11:53 AM, Divarin wrote:
>> Why in the world is there a top level domain name ".boats" but not a
>> ".bbs"?! that's just a travesty!
> 
> Cost.
> 
> The last I heard, registering a new top level domain was about a quarter
> of a million dollars start up and about 100 thousand dollars a year
> ongoing.
> 
> I suspect that there isn't enough demand to cover that cost.
> 
> That also completely elides the technical complications and requirement.

I would be joyous to have MYNAME dot BBS.

The TLD racket is a monumental grift. It's just a entry in a database.
We don't even need registrars. This is just part of the grift for the
military-industrial complex to maintain censorship power over the big
world network.

DNS and name resolution is stuck 30 years in the past to protect the big
players that have already sewed up the market.

The rich are a hill and progress is a big wagon you must push up the
hill - while the hill bludgeons your kneecaps.

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