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How is domain registration more daunting than the process to get a phone number? I felt like I had to give a lot more info, time and money to my phone carrier t
by cheschire 5y ago
How is domain registration more daunting than the process to get a phone number? I felt like I had to give a lot more info, time and money to my phone carrier than to Hover.
- daok 5y agoExactly, it is not daunting and way easier than 20 years ago. We went a long way to improve the process.
- tragictrash 5y agoI got like 5 of them and I don't even use them!!
- anderspitman 5y agoI should have been more specific. Registering is indeed pretty easy. But using a domain is quite difficult without a lot of background knowledge. Everyone understands how phone numbers work well enough to use them, and there are lots of systems in place to walk you through the process whenever you need to change phones (or numbers), etc. Connecting a domain name to a piece of software running on any of your devices should require nothing more than a quick OAuth flow to your domain provider to connect a tunnel to the application. You shouldn't need to understand DNS, TLS, HTTP, ports, ip addresses, NAT, CGNAT, etc in order to self-host simple programs like URL shorteners quickly and securely.