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running a domain costs money. there's no way around that - it requires server resources to respond to dns queries, and that requires servers and electricity.

running a domain costs money. there's no way around that - it requires server resources to respond to dns queries, and that requires servers and electricity. so to offer it for free means somebody has to subsidize it. letsencrypt can operate because big companies with lots of money want their ads to be delivered without being intercepted by an ISP. what's the motivation for anybody to subsidize free domains?

deadbabe 1y ago
How about DNS on a blockchain?
- meowkit 1y ago
  https://docs.ens.domains/learn/protocol/ https://docs.ens.domains/learn/protocol/ Supporting DNS all up should be possible but organizing the other decentralized services (compute, storage) is the hard part
  - fruitworks 1y ago
    The name service is easy, namecoin did it more efficiently than ENS a decade ago. The decentralized services need not be attached to some blockchain due to the resource constraints. But there are examples like Filecoin and such.
- charcircuit 1y ago
  They already work in Brave too or for other browsers if you install a webextention.
- simonw 1y ago
  Aka DNS where if you lose your passphrase (or get phished) you irreversibly lose control of that domain.
  - deadbabe 1y ago
    But the tradeoff is that it’s free right?
- HumanOstrich 1y ago
  That sounds like an unnecessarily overcomplicated nightmare.
koolba 1y ago
> running a domain costs money. there's no way around that - it requires server resources to respond to dns queries, and that requires servers and electricity. I guarantee you I can store and make available over DNS the less than 1 KiB of data for less than a penny a year. Instead of free, charge a flat $1, put it in long term US treasuries at 5% / TIPS at 2.5% and you’ve covered your hosting costs forever. The principle will never need to be touched.
- notatoad 1y ago
  okay, so why aren't you doing that. if you can offer domains for $1, you can undercut all the existing players by a huge margin. that's a big opportunity, no?
  - fruitworks 1y ago
    You would need to pay the ICANN fief
    - eikenberry 1y ago
      Everyone would get a subdomain and so you only need to pay for 1 TLD.. that's <$20US/year.
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deadbabe 1y ago

How about DNS on a blockchain?

meowkit 1y ago
https://docs.ens.domains/learn/protocol/ https://docs.ens.domains/learn/protocol/ Supporting DNS all up should be possible but organizing the other decentralized services (compute, storage) is the hard part
- fruitworks 1y ago
  The name service is easy, namecoin did it more efficiently than ENS a decade ago. The decentralized services need not be attached to some blockchain due to the resource constraints. But there are examples like Filecoin and such.
charcircuit 1y ago
They already work in Brave too or for other browsers if you install a webextention.
simonw 1y ago
Aka DNS where if you lose your passphrase (or get phished) you irreversibly lose control of that domain.
- deadbabe 1y ago
  But the tradeoff is that it’s free right?
HumanOstrich 1y ago
That sounds like an unnecessarily overcomplicated nightmare.

koolba 1y ago

> running a domain costs money. there's no way around that - it requires server resources to respond to dns queries, and that requires servers and electricity. I guarantee you I can store and make available over DNS the less than 1 KiB of data for less than a penny a year. Instead of free, charge a flat $1, put it in long term US treasuries at 5% / TIPS at 2.5% and you’ve covered your hosting costs forever. The principle will never need to be touched.

notatoad 1y ago
okay, so why aren't you doing that. if you can offer domains for $1, you can undercut all the existing players by a huge margin. that's a big opportunity, no?
- fruitworks 1y ago
  You would need to pay the ICANN fief
  - eikenberry 1y ago
    Everyone would get a subdomain and so you only need to pay for 1 TLD.. that's <$20US/year.

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