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The thing about DNS I like the least is that you are always at the mercy of a lot of other parties. You can never really own a domain, only rent it. You depend

The thing about DNS I like the least is that you are always at the mercy of a lot of other parties. You can never really own a domain, only rent it. You depend on the owner of the TLD you use to keep honoring your contract and they depend on the owner of the root zone. Prices can just rise because there is a lot of friction to change the domain. Through no fault of your own you can lose your access to a domain (.ga, .af). And that is especially problematic in systems that use the domain as an identifier (see ActivityPub). I wish there was a better way but I can't think of one.

teddyh 3y ago
Absolutely nothing you own is absolute. Except maybe brainwallets. Also, avoid ccTLDs where you do not have your primary presence.
- 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 3y ago
  Losing a couple percent of cash every year to inflation is a lot more predictable than losing a domain suddenly and having someone else put up a malware-infested copy of my own site taken from an archive.
- yjftsjthsd-h 3y ago
  I feel comfortable saying you can own a .onion address, since it's controlled by a private key you control.
  - jj999 3y ago
    Properties are dependant on you being able to defend it, which, if you aren't a state, you delegate to the state where you posess thing. This include your body, your mind, and your life.
    - yjftsjthsd-h 3y ago
      Just because you can redefine a word into being meaningless doesn't mean it's useful to do so.
- xyzzy123 3y ago
  This is true but it would nice to have some TLDs operated as associations or coops for the benefit of members.
VoodooJuJu 3y ago
I think it's a fine compromise. You own your domain inasmuch as you can own a home. With both, you pay protection money to a central authority who ensures you're allowed to keep owning them.
crotchfire 3y ago
> I wish there was a better way but I can't think of one. There is: RFC7686: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7686 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7686

teddyh 3y ago

Absolutely nothing you own is absolute. Except maybe brainwallets. Also, avoid ccTLDs where you do not have your primary presence.

01HNNWZ0MV43FF 3y ago
Losing a couple percent of cash every year to inflation is a lot more predictable than losing a domain suddenly and having someone else put up a malware-infested copy of my own site taken from an archive.
yjftsjthsd-h 3y ago
I feel comfortable saying you can own a .onion address, since it's controlled by a private key you control.
- jj999 3y ago
  Properties are dependant on you being able to defend it, which, if you aren't a state, you delegate to the state where you posess thing. This include your body, your mind, and your life.
  - yjftsjthsd-h 3y ago
    Just because you can redefine a word into being meaningless doesn't mean it's useful to do so.
xyzzy123 3y ago
This is true but it would nice to have some TLDs operated as associations or coops for the benefit of members.

VoodooJuJu 3y ago

I think it's a fine compromise. You own your domain inasmuch as you can own a home. With both, you pay protection money to a central authority who ensures you're allowed to keep owning them.

crotchfire 3y ago

> I wish there was a better way but I can't think of one. There is: RFC7686: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7686 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7686