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Genuine question: why “blame”? Does it really matter?
by carl_dr 1y ago
Genuine question: why “blame”? Does it really matter?
- ionwake 1y agoyes blame. ofcourse it matters. tld use to be good insight into the purpose of the website. IE, google.com, or wikipedia.org
- jrflowers 1y agoThose tlds still exist. The existence of butts.adult doesn’t create confusion about oxfam.org
- portaouflop 1y agoYou misled me, butts.adult does in fact not exist.
- jrflowers 1y agoOh wow. That seems like an oversight. Somebody with $400 to burn could either support or refute my point on this matter
- justusthane 1y agoWith some exceptions (.gov, .edu, for example), it has never actually meant anything. Anyone can register a .com, .net, or .org for any purpose.
- hakfoo 1y agoI thought com/net/org had distinct use cases until the early 1990s when it became a free-for-all.
- 9dev 1y agoThat was the idea, but from my memory, people chose their own meaning and conventions pretty much from the start. So much about the internet was envisioned with a completely different use case than what it actually was used for, it’s amazing things even kinda worked out in the end.
- NoMoreNicksLeft 1y agoSpamming up namespaces for "commercial" purposes is never a good thing.
- postquantumfax 1y agoDNS allows search so we really should have started rejecting everything that isn't qualified with an end dot as punishment to ICANN.. Instead random common names might be treated differently on every network to make sure these people can't issue certs that will be trusted for them in your own network, etc. Now prioratizing unambiguos naming would be somewhat acceptable if ICANN was tacobell and just a steward of naming on the side.
- ahoka 1y agoHot take: TLDs should not exist but parking domains should not be allowed.
- hsbauauvhabzb 1y agoAnd cost if domains should increase near exponentially with the more you own. One domain? $10/year, two domains: $50, three: $250, etc.
- kmoser 1y agoWithout rigorous ID requirements, that restriction can be circumvented easily.
- postquantumfax 1y agoWith rigorous ID requirements, that restriction can be circumvented easily.
- hsbauauvhabzb 1y agoI think the problem is they domain sales are for-profit, there’s no incentive to prevent squatting as it’s presumably a huge profit centre.
- 9dev 1y agoWith AI churning out a pretend blog or news site or web shop in a few minutes, that would be hard to enforce. I’m with you on the necessary death to TLDs, though.
- bigyabai 1y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons