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What about individuals like me? I'm not a non-profit. I'm a hobbyist who's been using a .org domain for 25 years, very nearly my entire adult life. My entire

What about individuals like me? I'm not a non-profit. I'm a hobbyist who's been using a .org domain for 25 years, very nearly my entire adult life. My entire digital identity is tied up in it. I have hundreds of accounts and email addresses and subscriptions that I'd have to change if my mail domains suddenly became unaffordable. This is madness.

echelon 7y ago
The dream of the Internet is dead. The web is being replaced with mobile apps and silos. It's going against the grain now to do things on your own.
- erwan 7y ago
  When did the internet become HTTP:80 and HTTPS:443
  - swinglock 7y ago
    At least a decade ago.
  - cardiffspaceman 7y ago
    >When did the internet become HTTP:80 and HTTPS:443 When you no longer needed ports 20, 25, 70, 110, 119 or 143.
2pointsomone 7y ago
Yes good point, that is why a TLD which recognizes you as a non-profit would not be a good idea. You would probably be just fine with .org regardless of whether a more apt TLD is going to be created.
- oefrha 7y ago
  > why a TLD which recognizes you as a non-profit would not be a good idea. .org hasn't been restricted to non-profits since forever ago (even when it was the restriction wasn't enforced). It was, until very recently, a TLD supposedly run by a non-profit as part of the Internet infrastructure so that people would expect reasonable pricing, unlike others. > You would probably be just fine with .org Similar to gp I built my identity around an .org (though not as long). I certainly won't be fine if Ethos decides to jack the price of my domain to hundreds of dollars per year.
- landryraccoon 7y ago
  I after. How is it any way desirable if .org doesn’t actually represent non profits? If anyone can register a .org regardless of status then it might as well be sold to the highest bidder, as it was meaningless for a long time already.
lonelappde 7y ago
Non-profit doesn't matter. The idea is that we create a replacement for .org and update all the DNS resolvers to prefer it for resolving .org lookups and only use PIR as a legacy fallback.

echelon 7y ago

The dream of the Internet is dead. The web is being replaced with mobile apps and silos. It's going against the grain now to do things on your own.

erwan 7y ago
When did the internet become HTTP:80 and HTTPS:443
- swinglock 7y ago
  At least a decade ago.
- cardiffspaceman 7y ago
  >When did the internet become HTTP:80 and HTTPS:443 When you no longer needed ports 20, 25, 70, 110, 119 or 143.

2pointsomone 7y ago

Yes good point, that is why a TLD which recognizes you as a non-profit would not be a good idea. You would probably be just fine with .org regardless of whether a more apt TLD is going to be created.

oefrha 7y ago
> why a TLD which recognizes you as a non-profit would not be a good idea. .org hasn't been restricted to non-profits since forever ago (even when it was the restriction wasn't enforced). It was, until very recently, a TLD supposedly run by a non-profit as part of the Internet infrastructure so that people would expect reasonable pricing, unlike others. > You would probably be just fine with .org Similar to gp I built my identity around an .org (though not as long). I certainly won't be fine if Ethos decides to jack the price of my domain to hundreds of dollars per year.
landryraccoon 7y ago
I after. How is it any way desirable if .org doesn’t actually represent non profits? If anyone can register a .org regardless of status then it might as well be sold to the highest bidder, as it was meaningless for a long time already.

lonelappde 7y ago

Non-profit doesn't matter. The idea is that we create a replacement for .org and update all the DNS resolvers to prefer it for resolving .org lookups and only use PIR as a legacy fallback.