Nobody really uses opennic and it has the same issues as ICANN "a single party controls the namespace" with naming on Handshake it's verified, with no trust going to a single authority.
Handshake is a decentralized root zone file, how it should be. Check out Handshake.org (uses a coin to prevent sybil attacks) Namebase.io to bid on TLDS Nextdns.io (enable handshake) in the options Some good guides and a video here: https://dns.live/start.html
Works on top of regular DNS and supports top 100k alexa domains to prevent abuse/theft
I just bought a few TLDs DNS Live offers free hosting etc (ns/web) if you get a tld off of Namebase.io
Sorry if I seem a little biased. A cool thing to play with though. The internet naming system should be way better especially with whatever this corrupt .org sale is to some illuminati Ethos Capital, ICANN selling .org to themselves? lol
California just halted the .org sale in the spirit of an open and free internet. ICANN has too much power, and would have made over a billion on the .org sale.
Hurray. So it solves the actual issue of the people who makes fortunes from the DNS system not being the nice people behind that coin.
Exit: I totally missed the GP post. OpenNic allows any TLD to be created.
How would that fix anything?
The problem is the actual hierarchical DNS system, not who gets to own a tld.
Isn't this just an other example of how dangerous it is to base your business on third party resources?
There are only 99 registered domains, a few of which are probably owned by the registry itself.
At $2,500/yr/domain, they're not exactly making bank. The cost to maintain all of this probably eats into the profit a bit.
Lots of people had the idea that they'd get a million customers and so even at one dollar per customer they couldn't help but make money, the reality in a lot of cases was few customers and no route out.
A handful of general purpose gTLDs work, there's one quite popular in Russia for example, using Cyrillic characters instead of Latin, they have a broad base of paying customers.
Most of the rest are pure vanity and can be expected to have similar lifespan to a vanity .com domain. Some will be sold to speculators, some will be expensively dormant for years, many will be abandoned and forgotten.
Mostly gTLDs were/ are a way for ICANN to make a lot of money exploring stupid people's greed.
I am keeping an eye on decommissioned TLDs - https://twitter.com/fanf/status/1245512707459158020?s=21
Most of them are closed .brand TLDs owned by companies whose business isn’t DNS. The struggling open TLDs seem to be traded and collected by big registries that can get economies of scale, rather than closed, so there is a limited way out. I have seen at least one .brand TLD (.bond for Bond University) converted to an open TLD and sold to a big gTLD registry provider.
I can see that having them as Tweets is delicious if you participate because you can just RT them with context but I'm the sort of person who likes big piles of data to contemplate at once.
In the '90s people told that buying lots of .com was a waste. And now we have domain hoarders making millions.
There is a .amazon, a .google, a .cancerresearch, a .sex, a .rich (which costs thousands of dollars btw). Plenty of them such as .io and .tv are all completely untethered from their original meanings/purposes. At this point, a website is just a string with a '.' in it somewhere.
Instead of having 1500+ discretely decided upon TLDs why not just let people just create their own TLDs as long as they have a server to host the DNS?