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> Free, or even low cost, domains are guaranteed to lead to abuse. Also, how do you individually allocate free domains to people? You go to a government site w
by labawi 7y ago
> Free, or even low cost, domains are guaranteed to lead to abuse. Also, how do you individually allocate free domains to people?
You go to a government site with your electronic national ID (some countries have those) and request 2-3 domains that are free. You only get to change a free domain 1x per year or maybe longer.
Doesn't apply to all countries, but how would that be worse than what we have now? Everyone could have email and websites on their own domains, probably even hosted for free - that's decentralization/freedom.
- CydeWeys 7y agoSo you'd have to go wait in line for hours at the DMV to get your domain names? That sounds strictly worse than what we have now, and would be way more expensive for governments to administer (as ccTLDs would now be a cost center rather than a profit center).
- labawi 7y agoWe don't have DMVs here, we are required to have national eID cards, which we can use to log in to government sites to do tax returns and stuff. It's government, so it would cost a lot, but it shouldn't be too much to implement limited per-person domain registration. In USA it would be harder. Administrative costs - additional domains can and should cost more. You can collect fees from companies that don't want to be reliant on that one guy, or just call it a day, give a domain for free to companies and call it administrative expenses. How much does it cost to run a ccTLD?