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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 f

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?

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?