I know this is HN but not everything needs to be monetized. There is such a thing as doing something because you want to. People write open source software larg

I know this is HN but not everything needs to be monetized. There is such a thing as doing something because you want to. People write open source software largely because they want to and if it helps them they might as well let others use it too. There's more than enough unused network resources on the Internet to make a free alternative to DNS. OpenNIC comes fairly close to this but still fails to provide a good registration system. >enterprising businessman who grabs all of them I'm mostly targeting short names that can be shared with people in place of IPs. So think about server lobbies where normally you might type in an IP to connect to a friends server. The current domain name system has popular TLDs but my design isn't based on fixed TLDs. The name can be anything and there's no 'most popular' TLD so name squatting isn't an issue. It may be an issue if this were to emerge more for apps and websites though.