ryan29

23 ms·

91.
by ryan29 4y ago
This is great! It's something I've wondered about for a while. I was surprised to see the decline of .com is fairly linear. Before I looked I was expecting the use of alternate TLDs to be accelerating a bit. Are the absolute va
92.
by ryan29 4y ago
I have one of those. When everyone was changing their Twitter (display) names to *.eth I thought there might be a chance Twitter would use ENS for domain validated identities, so I grabbed one that matches a good .com I own. The ENS stuff
93.
by ryan29 4y ago
Domain based identity also enables attestation which could be use to artificially add even more friction. Plus, since it's not constrained to a single platform, you could have 3rd parties that assess trust and reputation.
94.
by ryan29 4y ago
I always liked the idea of OpenID, but you're right, it was far too complex for the average person. I was enthusiastic about it, but never got around to using it because it wasn't simple enough. I think the kind of approach used
95.
by ryan29 4y ago
Forgetting to renew a domain is much harder than it used to be [1]. ICANN rules require 2 reminders prior to expiration and 2 notifications after expiration. They also require a 30 day minimum RGP (redemption grace period) where DNS doesn
96.
by ryan29 4y ago
The reason I say I think domains make a great identity is that I don't think it's important for identities to be verified . I even think there's room for 100% anonymous blockchain domains. The value is in the way the domain
97.
by ryan29 4y ago
Yeah. I've used that enough to learn how it works. I think the biggest issue is that it's not the default and most people take the easiest path which is using GitHub, etc.. There's a neat project that can help generate som
98.
by ryan29 4y ago
Ideally you could use the domain as a (vanity) pointer to an immutable handle and when someone follows the domain they'd actually be following an immutable identity that's a combination of the domain + immutable handle which refer
99.
by ryan29 4y ago
If the social networks don't moderate, or let you opt out of their moderation, and you can opt in to whatever moderation system you want, how would that be any worse than trusting big tech to moderate fairly?
100.
by ryan29 4y ago
I've wanted to have domains as identity for years , so I'm thrilled to see someone actually doing it. I want to use a domain validated identity for everything; social networks, package repositories, code signing, etc.. I hope th
101.
by ryan29 4y ago
> result is that it uses the kids PIN to authenticate despite requesting the adult's PIN That's been a thing for a long time. I hit it when trying to share games with child accounts. IIRC, the high level process was: -
102.
by ryan29 4y ago
I don't know much about the marketing potential for .dev vs others, but I think .dev is one of the safest TLDs in terms of registry management and longevity. It makes sense for Google to keep their TLDs priced reasonably to keep the w
103.
by ryan29 4y ago
It may make sense to put bulk email on a completely separate domain anyway, so then you could do something like: example.tech exampletech.com That has it's own downsides if it confuses your users, but most email clients ba
104.
by ryan29 4y ago
> I think the registrars broadly have looked at this issue and decided it would be too complicated to display the underlying USD price to registrants, so better to hide it and just display the price in the local currency? That would make
105.
by ryan29 4y ago
I never really thought about it before, but everything on Google Domains is shown in my local currency (CAD) and I'm fairly sure I get billed in local currency. It's nice having everything in my local currency, but they don'
106.
by ryan29 4y ago
> They said that the domain transfer fee is $843 and that they have nothing to do with it, the pricing is determined by registrar(Google in this case). The wholesale price is determined by the registry (Google), but the retail price wi
107.
by ryan29 4y ago
Predatory, abusive price increases are forbidden by section 2.10(c) of the baseline registry agreement. It applies to pretty much all of the new gTLDs. It's no different for .sbs [1]. > The parties acknowledge that the purpose of
108.
by ryan29 4y ago
I do the same for anything I consider important, but max out at 9 years. If you want to transfer to another registrar you need to be able to add 1 year. That means transferring a domain that has over 9 years remaining can fail because of
109.
by ryan29 4y ago
Check out section 2.10(c) of the registry agreement for .dev [1]. If you registered the domain when it was a non-premium domain, and you haven't agreed to a price increase, you might have a valid complaint with ICANN. > The parties
110.
by ryan29 4y ago
Domains are a type of identity. For example, a domain can be the identity of a company brand, which is valuable, without it being a specific person. > When I log on to Blockscan chat, I sign in with Ethereum. This means that I am immedi
111.
by ryan29 4y ago
You could look at Chia. I don't think the base project with the typical token scheme is worth anything, but the way it uses disk space for mining is kind of neat. The general idea is that you precompute a bunch of proofs and store the
112.
by ryan29 4y ago
I don't think anything built on traditional tech will catch on. Whenever I see anything touting decentralization, I always look at the setup instructions because I think the setup complexity will dictate the adoption potential. With M
113.
by ryan29 4y ago
My biggest concern would be someone scanning CT logs to find hosts with hobbyist grade security. That’s not meant to insult hobbyists, but they might be a juicy target for immediately exploitation after a zero day hits. To be clear, it’s
114.
by ryan29 4y ago
> The trick with Wasabi is that you are generally expected to not retrieve more than you’ve input in the same month, no? No. It's basically one download of all your data in 1 month [1]. > For example, if you store 100 TB with Wa
115.
by ryan29 4y ago
It's not a very good system either because it's called verification, but it's actually indicating popularity or notoriety. People hear "verified" and correlate that with trustworthiness when all that check mark is
116.
by ryan29 4y ago
I found a pretty good .com a few years ago and this is basically the conclusion I came to when I was trying to decide which matching TLDs to register and which ones are safe to use. I’m from Canada, so I used the ccTLD for all of my non-pub
117.
by ryan29 4y ago
> Then it doesn't matter if the domain expires and someone re-registers it, since they don't have the developer's private keys. That's a good point in terms of invalidation, but a new domain registrant should be able
118.
by ryan29 4y ago
I think you'd probably need some buy in from the domain registries and ICANN to make it really solid. Ideally, domains would have something similar to public certificate transparency logs where domain expirations would be recorded. I
119.
by ryan29 4y ago
I didn't take the survey because I've never packaged anything for PyPI, but I wish all of the package managers would have an option for domain validated namespaces. If I own example.com, I should be able to have 'pypi.org&#x2
120.
by ryan29 4y ago
> - Using a copyleft license like AGPL makes this an automatic non-starter for most businesses, no matter how impressive your tech might be. You'll have a lot more luck with mid-size and enterprise adoption with an MIT license. What

More ›