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THIS is the important point of this post. It might be "cool" that they now recognize the TLD now, but I can't imagine the chaos it would cause if .onion was pur
by vortico 10y ago
THIS is the important point of this post. It might be "cool" that they now recognize the TLD now, but I can't imagine the chaos it would cause if .onion was purchased.
- sandworm101 10y agoThere were plans for that contigency. Tor would have moved to some other tld (ie .onionland). The tor browser bundle would update bookmarks and probably issue a warning for .onion addresses. Annoyance but not chaos.
- dawnerd 10y agoI think the fear would be from people not familiar enough with tor to think any ol' .onion link was anonymous.
- temprature 10y agoThis can already happen with existing TLDs, for example: https://3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.onion.link https://3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.onion.link DDG themselves used to link to that URL in thee instant answer box if you searched for "duckduckgo onion", and I don't think anyone who isn't familiar with TLDs and Tor would realise what is happening there.
- TomMarius 10y agoNot everyone updates immediately, or even has access to updates.