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It's an interesting proposal (make 0123456789.xyz available for cheap and thus allow more widespread use of custom domain names for various applications), excep

It's an interesting proposal (make 0123456789.xyz available for cheap and thus allow more widespread use of custom domain names for various applications), except for two things: 1. This is basically just a strategy for XYZ to generate tons of new revenue from otherwise junk domains ($0.99 * 1.11B names = $1,098,900,000) 2. We don't need to charge for domain names to allow a wider array of applications to communicate using personalized global addressing. E-mail is the standard example: throwaway984393@mailprovider.com does not cost me anything at all, but it's personalized. Mail provider has to pay for a domain, but nobody else needs to. This kind of free personalized addressing is a design choice. In fact, you don't even need to use DNS at all, as many peer-to-peer networks (Bitcoin, IPFS, BitTorrent/Gnutella/Napster, YaCy, Usenet, etc) have shown. A 3rd potential problem with this proposal is that if it were expanded to other TLDs, it may generate significantly more traffic for the DNS root.

BoorishBears 5y ago
To me it's not interesring because it suffers from the same issue all the alternatives have. Getting a domain is not prohibitively expensive if you have low standards for the url (which presumably you do if "93736474.xyz" works) So the inevitable result is that a large number of applications using these will be so low effort they couldn't get a much better domain for barely more money, and that will probably end up being a mix of spam, malicious applications, and questionable content. And the end result is everyone blocking traffic from .xyz. Just like someurl@extracheaphosting.com is.
- bryanrasmussen 5y ago
  >Getting a domain is not prohibitively expensive if you have low standards for the url finally every famous fake phone number could have a domain https://www.steveharveyfm.com/content/2017-05-30-12-songs-with-phone-numbers-in-them/ https://www.steveharveyfm.com/content/2017-05-30-12-songs-wi...

BoorishBears 5y ago

To me it's not interesring because it suffers from the same issue all the alternatives have. Getting a domain is not prohibitively expensive if you have low standards for the url (which presumably you do if "93736474.xyz" works) So the inevitable result is that a large number of applications using these will be so low effort they couldn't get a much better domain for barely more money, and that will probably end up being a mix of spam, malicious applications, and questionable content. And the end result is everyone blocking traffic from .xyz. Just like someurl@extracheaphosting.com is.

bryanrasmussen 5y ago
>Getting a domain is not prohibitively expensive if you have low standards for the url finally every famous fake phone number could have a domain https://www.steveharveyfm.com/content/2017-05-30-12-songs-with-phone-numbers-in-them/ https://www.steveharveyfm.com/content/2017-05-30-12-songs-wi...