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People that cannot afford $50/year for a .com/.net/.org domain name can choose a cheaper tld. For some poor countries owning such a domain for your business wou
by JimWestergren 7y ago
People that cannot afford $50/year for a .com/.net/.org domain name can choose a cheaper tld. For some poor countries owning such a domain for your business would signal commitment - a good thing.
Yes, UN is a bureaucratic hell but I see no other existing option.
- vegardx 7y agoWhy should these TLDs be exclusive for certain people, even more so if they're going to be managed by some kind of global entity? You see no other existing options because the premise is to raise the cost significantly and make it unavailable for most people. It clearly doens't have to be that way. And you don't solve anything by funneling that money into an extremely inefficient organization.
- JimWestergren 7y agoOk, well. What do you propose?
- vegardx 7y agoKeep the current system, as it seems to be working well. There are other ways to stop domain squatters, like not letting them abuse the registrar status to hold domains without paying for them.
- simias 7y agoDomain names are not a scarce resource, there's no need to put the bar so high. As far as I can tell the current system with the current pricing seems to work just fine, why not continue that way?
- bitxbitxbitcoin 7y agoBecause there are structural incentives for people involved to make money from it nefariously - so they will inevitably.
- nybble41 7y ago> Domain names are not a scarce resource... They are, though, since each domain can only point to one server (per RR type). Or at least meaningful ones are, but if you're okay with a random meaningless string of characters rather than something memorable then it doesn't really matter whether it's under any particular TLD. Moreover, when it comes to .org domains the money you're paying for registration is supposed to cover some background checks to verify that the buyer is really a non-profit organization and not some scammer, to maintain the reputation and integrity of the .org TLD. That takes labor, and labor is a scarce resource.
- C1sc0cat 7y agoWhy should my personal .org cost that much remember that .org is not just for non profits in the narrow USA sense.
- rocqua 7y agoHow long until China pushes that UN body to deregister unicef.org because they are 'lying to the people' ? The UN is too political for this kind of governance.
- whoopdedo 7y agoWhy should I, who have had my personal domain for 15 years, using multiple email addresses, websites, and dynamic DNS back to my home router, be forced to move to a "cheaper" TLD? Gentrification comes to the internet. No thank you.