Price increase for .COM, .XYZ, and more domains

Re:Price increase for .COM, .XYZ, and more domains by kassner on Thursday August 22, 2024 @11:54AM (#41321625)

While I’d love to see that, it’s known that anything free will be majorly abused for various attacks. Heck, even paid but cheap TLDs like xyz are often completely blocked in corporate networks.

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Re:Price increase for .COM, .XYZ, and more domains by gklitz on Thursday August 22, 2024 @01:01PM (#41322218)

.com domains get blocked too. Any security based on the assumption that a site is good or bad based solely on the tld is a complete failure.

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Re:Price increase for .COM, .XYZ, and more domains by kassner on Thursday August 22, 2024 @03:11PM (#41323501)

I meant blocking the entire TLD. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28554400

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Re:Price increase for .COM, .XYZ, and more domains by zamadatix on Thursday August 22, 2024 @08:19PM (#41325329)

I agree, that's why I think it's less about being free and more about not being for-profit and given lots of funding by major industry backers for that purpose to help keep revenue incentives less interesting. It's fine to pay a good price for proper identity validation, abuse mediation, avoiding low dollar scams, and the like. The cost to be avoiding is just ramping up the price year by year to increase margin.

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