Re: .bbs tld?

On Thu, 21 Oct 2021 23:57:53 -0600
Grant Taylor <[email protected]> wrote:

You should really have a look at ENS. https://ens.domains/

It pokes holes in pretty much all your arguments about the need for a
centralized registrar.

> On 10/21/21 10:05 PM, 711 Spooky Mart wrote:
> > I would be joyous to have MYNAME dot BBS.  
> 
> :-)
> 
> > The TLD racket is a monumental grift.  
> 
> I disagree.
> 
> > It's just a entry in a database.  
> 
> Some what yes, and more so no.
> 
> It's not /just/ an entry in a database.  It's a database.  It's a 
> geographically distributed and resilient database that merges with 
> multiple counter parts run by disparate entities in many different 
> countries.
> 
> Calling it /just/ an entry in a database is about like calling the 
> (inter)national electric grid /just/ wires in the wall.
> 
> > We don't even need registrars.  
> 
> How pray tell will we deal with someone owning (in so much as you can 
> own something you rent and thus occupy) something while preventing 
> others from squatting on your ... asset?
> 
> There has to be some organization system to apply some order to what 
> would otherwise become chaos.  Registrars and registries are what
> create the order out of the chaos.
> 
> The technical requirements for operating a TLD almost demand a medium
> to large company to pay for.  It's so far from an old PC that you run
> some software on that it's not even funny.
> 
> > This is just part of the grift for the military-industrial complex 
> > to maintain censorship power over the big world network.  
> 
> Acquiring, operating, securing that technical infrastructure costs 
> money.  Hence why it costs so much the higher up the food chain you
> go.
> 
> It's no /just/ grift.  There is true reasoning behind much of it.
> Sure, there are some that will extort as much money as they can.  But
> you don't have to do business with them.
> 
> > DNS and name resolution is stuck 30 years in the past to protect
> > the big players that have already sewed up the market.  
> 
> I disagree.  I routinely use DNS technology that was developed or 
> enhanced within the last 5-15 years.
> 
> The big players that are being protected, meaning holding technology 
> advancement back, aren't the DNS operators.  It's other big companies 
> that are not adopting new technology that are holding the DNS
> industry back.
> 
> > The rich are a hill and progress is a big wagon you must push up
> > the hill - while the hill bludgeons your kneecaps.  
> 
> The technologists are standing on the top of the hill having invented 
> the wagon, built the wagon, loaded as many slow movers into it as 
> possible, and pushed it up the hill, who are now looking back at the 
> rest of the industry wondering why they aren't following suit.
> 
> Try leading by example.
> 
> Try using an alternate naming root.
> 
> Do that for a few years and see what you think.
> 
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