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That opinion is unpopular for good reason. A financial barier to prevent crime implies lack of petty money is the cause of the crime. You can make 10x what you

That opinion is unpopular for good reason. A financial barier to prevent crime implies lack of petty money is the cause of the crime. You can make 10x what you said with the simplest scam targeting a few million valid recipients within a week. Even if your solution would solve the problem, it would destroy the purpose of the system. Throwing the proverbial baby with the bath water. If I want a phone line it costs me $10 to get a sim card from walmart. Most reputable TLDa cost a ton more. I mean what is it with this lazy way of solving real problems. What's next, tax domain registrations? Require a government ID? How ridiculous, this is what happens when humans give up their basic freedoms to goverenments and ruling classes. By what authority are you even regulating my free speech here? If I put up a website, I am not engaging in commerce unless I sell or buy something using that site. It is the equivalent of me calling myself a name and making a speech in public and you want to charge me £1000 for the right to call myself a name or to label the soap box I stand on a name so others can distiguish me. The fact that scammers also stand in soap boxes and make false claims for profit does not magically give you, your ruling class or the goverenmen t authority to regulate soap box labels and tax speech. Even if this has popular support, free speech is a natural right. You can police harmful/false speech retroactively but you can't inhibit speech proactively to deter a possible crime unless you can guarantee your measure affects only law breakers.

snarf21 7y ago
You are welcome to disagree but I guess I am missing your point. Having a website doesn't require a domain. DNS is a vanity layer on top to make it more user friendly and provide an abstraction layer. Domain registration costs money today. According to your argument that should be free or it is limiting your speech. I never said anything about speech or what you use the domains for. If it is yours, do whatever you want with it. Ethos bought .org for $1B. Why should a private equity company be able to own DNS suffixes? Are you okay with that? The issue at hand is that these domains are being created specifically to deceive. This is an issue of consumer protection and greater good. The US just passed bigger fines for robo-callers. Everyone seems fine with not getting scam phone calls from their own phone number. Is this a restriction of free speech? Everyone isn't allowed to run their own tv or radio station, it is regulated. Is that limiting your free speech? You can't make up your own phone number. If you want a special 800 number that is more memorable, you have to pay the phone company lots of extra money for it. I'm merely suggesting similar.
- saagarjha 7y ago
  Domains are fundamentally different from phone numbers, because you interact with people you don’t necessarily “know” all the time while you only infrequently call people who aren’t in your contact list. Clicking on links would work, of course, but trying to remember the address of “that one dude who writes about maps” gets quite a bit harder.
- imtringued 7y ago
  >Having a website doesn't require a domain. Are you even listening to yourself? Your idea was to make domain names hard to obtain so scammers can't have them. The only way that idea will be effective is if people only go to sites that are part of the validated domain name system. This means that if you don't have a domain, nobody will go on your site (this is already true today). So why on earth are you saying those legitimate websites should look like scams?

snarf21 7y ago

You are welcome to disagree but I guess I am missing your point. Having a website doesn't require a domain. DNS is a vanity layer on top to make it more user friendly and provide an abstraction layer. Domain registration costs money today. According to your argument that should be free or it is limiting your speech. I never said anything about speech or what you use the domains for. If it is yours, do whatever you want with it. Ethos bought .org for $1B. Why should a private equity company be able to own DNS suffixes? Are you okay with that? The issue at hand is that these domains are being created specifically to deceive. This is an issue of consumer protection and greater good. The US just passed bigger fines for robo-callers. Everyone seems fine with not getting scam phone calls from their own phone number. Is this a restriction of free speech? Everyone isn't allowed to run their own tv or radio station, it is regulated. Is that limiting your free speech? You can't make up your own phone number. If you want a special 800 number that is more memorable, you have to pay the phone company lots of extra money for it. I'm merely suggesting similar.

saagarjha 7y ago
Domains are fundamentally different from phone numbers, because you interact with people you don’t necessarily “know” all the time while you only infrequently call people who aren’t in your contact list. Clicking on links would work, of course, but trying to remember the address of “that one dude who writes about maps” gets quite a bit harder.
imtringued 7y ago
>Having a website doesn't require a domain. Are you even listening to yourself? Your idea was to make domain names hard to obtain so scammers can't have them. The only way that idea will be effective is if people only go to sites that are part of the validated domain name system. This means that if you don't have a domain, nobody will go on your site (this is already true today). So why on earth are you saying those legitimate websites should look like scams?