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It's how Urbit was designed, for example. The gentry owns all the primary namespaces, and the peasants pay rent to use their lairds fief.
by pram 2y ago
It's how Urbit was designed, for example. The gentry owns all the primary namespaces, and the peasants pay rent to use their lairds fief.
- jazzyjackson 2y agoIs it all that different than DNS, in that top level domains are owned by a certain 'gentry' and everyone else pays rent? You don't have to pay for namespace in urbit btw only if you want a permanent handle (and when you buy a planet or whatever its yours, you don't pay monthly for it, but yes you buy it from someone who was granted ownership by king curtis)
- pram 2y agoCertainly not different in practice, and it’s also bad. Yet ARPANET wasn’t originally designed to have a bunch of parasitic registrars collecting rent, so thats something worth considering.