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gTLDs cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. You can run your own DNS servers for waaay less. I think the usefulness could come from community controlled TLDs.
by donatj 3y ago
gTLDs cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. You can run your own DNS servers for waaay less.
I think the usefulness could come from community controlled TLDs. Might not be a mainstream thing but free libre TLDs for open source projects and what not?
- Towaway69 3y agoSomething similar to what Let's Encrypt did to the SSL Certificate market. Before they came along, SSL root certificate were way over priced and overnight, the market simply disappeared. The same should happen to gTLDs.
- Ayesh 3y agoIIRC, the cost is ~$200k one time and ~$25/yr. Shitcoins get magnitudes higher crowd funding. Not impossible to do at all.
- alfons_foobar 3y agoOn a technical level, this is very simple - just change the list of DNS root servers on all "participating" machines to point to your own new nameservers. But then you have the problem: Who manages your community controlled domains? Who keeps track of who owns which domain?