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Devils advocate question: Isn't registering an ip to name essentially advertising? You're paying a registrar to return your Internet address location when searc
by Sleaker 3mo ago
Devils advocate question: Isn't registering an ip to name essentially advertising? You're paying a registrar to return your Internet address location when searched for.
- redeeman 3mo agono, that is a ridiculous line of reasoning
- sophacles 3mo agoNot really. Why would people pay so much for the $brand_name.com, etc if there wasn't a marketing component to it?
- anamexis 3mo agoHaving a marketable address is not advertising.
- nightski 3mo agoI mean I pay for a domain for my homelab. No one else uses it.
- stackghost 3mo agoMarketing and advertising are two related but distinct functions.
- ButlerianJihad 3mo agoNot merely DNS names, but in IP routing, announcing a route is known as "advertising" it. You and your ISP are literally advertising a path for others to find your site via TCP/IP.
- AnthonyMouse 3mo agoThe two obvious problems being that a) you're advertising that so that people in the countries you actually intend to do business in can find it, and b) the same IP address may be hosting thousands of independent sites any subset of which could be intended to be accessed by people in the other jurisdiction, and publishing the route is done for them.
- AnthonyMouse 3mo agoThis is like saying that having a trademark in the US is advertising in France because you're paying the USPTO to publish your trademark registration. If your scenario makes it impossible for someone to do ordinary business in country A but not in country B then it's fundamentally unworkable.