when we used them the guy running the show emailed us about a tranny on here who emailed them crying that we treat him like a tranny and he was like “hate is not the way” or some such bullshit. they’ve always been super faggy this isn’t surprising to me in the slightest

when are we starting our own domain registrar? I'll make the logo

need at least 100k before we can consider that but we would still be beholden to ICANN et al so if they start handing out demands you’re just pissing that money away too. the goal shouldnt be aligning with them it should be creating something to overcome it. domains 2.0

I thought what ENS was doing on Ethereum was really cool until I figured out how much centralized control the founders still had over the whole thing.

There were a couple other options, but they changed chains and I lost my hodl, so they're gay now.

ENS was always stupid because having names be human readable is a pointless goal and it has the same problem with squatters that DNS has. Making a digital resource scarce (only so many one letter domains available) isn't what we should want for next-gen DNS.

>name service >not human readable how does this even work?

think of tor onion addresses, where the "name" is just a public key (6x7g7rr6fhdoszolkqkaittdr6qzgejjxoc42q4ceaph2xttmo5vgryd.onion) that is then used to connect securely to the web server. It means we can get rid of DNS and PKI at the same time.

The pubkey all the things people remind me of the folks that used to obsess over pgp signing all their messages on usenet, often with a signature stanza that was longer than their message. The purpose of name service is to translate human readable names into machine readable addresses. We dont call foxgirls "c1b04ae006f580ee74da216e341ea5d7226a263bb9e451ab9f04ebc0b89eb2ced2cbfa466f0b9fc8d8300d83d33fb321fbdadc50125eb61b6dffe9b77fa50b14" because humans are not machines.

Readability is overrated, we have too many TLDs (.com, .me, .pride) so anyone trying to remember which it is will just use google anyway to look it up. Expecting people to remember domain names is very silly, and we gave up SO MUCH in pursuit of "readability".

@af2@poa.st @ArdainianRight@detroitriotcity.com @DemonSixOne@poa.st @ForbiddenDreamer@poa.st @graf@poa.st @Hoss@shitpost.cloud that sounds incredibly autistic things DO need to be readable and memorable, or there's no fucking point to the the whole idea of resolving a name to an IP address

The point is that with so many TLDs they aren't memorable. Domain squatters frequently make use of this inability remember if it's .com or .net, forcing site owners to pay for a whole bunch of similar domains to protect their brand because ICANN thought we needed .barefoot and .fail. The point of having a domain name over a bare IP is that IPs frequently change (new host/dc, CDN etc) while domain names should remain static. In today's DNS system, that's ALL they are good for.

@af2@poa.st @ArdainianRight@detroitriotcity.com @DemonSixOne@poa.st @ForbiddenDreamer@poa.st @graf@poa.st @Hoss@shitpost.cloud then that's a branding issue fuck you i'm not using alsdkfjdsalfkjsdflgkjsdflgkjsdflgjsdflgjhsdflgjhsdfikoguhipxfdgunbkxdjfgh.ijfhdgs9ptghsdfkljghsdfg

That's not your brand, just like your street address isn't your brand. The sign on your door is your brand, not the nerd shit in your URL bar. We let them censor us and curse us with the shitty insecure DNS system in the name of "oh look, it says Nike in the url bar too!"

@af2@poa.st @ArdainianRight@detroitriotcity.com @DemonSixOne@poa.st @ForbiddenDreamer@poa.st @graf@poa.st @Hoss@shitpost.cloud ok let's imagine you've cursed everyone with your long ass unreadable alternative to DNS you're still getting censored and deplatformed ~exactly the same~ because ISPs and hosting providers still exist. literally all you've done is make things worse and harder to use for everybody.

>Just make an alternative Yet again people fail to realize this shit is solved, like it or not. It's not 1985. You would need well north of a billion dollars to even try to compete. Then you'd have to get IEEE to abandon 30 years of standards.

tor solved this with onion addresses. Brave even as native tor support these days.

@af2@poa.st @Goalkeeper@nicecrew.digital tor solved nothing but "what if we had VPN but worse, 100x slower, and banned from every web site on earth because it's exclusively used for abuse?" congrats you have an address generated by cats walking on keyboards, that nobody can find, that other servers can't communicate with so it's useless for anything federated, and that only works on one browser