Announcing .self: A New Top-Level Domain Designed to Support Self-Hosting

Re:Announcing .self: A New Top-Level Domain Designed to Supp... by jurgenaut23 on Monday June 29, 2026 @11:33PM (#48728220)

I am probably missing something, but how DNS TXT updates can be made difficult to automate?

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Re:Announcing .self: A New Top-Level Domain Designed to Supp... by anilgulecha on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @12:10AM (#48728401)

We can get creative. quick ideas: Send it by printed post. pass it around people to people. an email needs to be added in with some process, and can only get one TXT update value a week.

Many ways of adding friction to obtaining the updatable value - which a human owning a domain would be happy to do, but a squatter would not want to.

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Re:Announcing .self: A New Top-Level Domain Designed to Supp... by szszrk on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @02:12AM (#48729072)

> Send it by printed post

that's how one of my local companies tries to force clients in. They removed auth code from their web panels and introduced complex snail-mail procedure.

That was clear signal to run, but it took me 6 months to do just the domain transfer.

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Re:Announcing .self: A New Top-Level Domain Designed to Supp... by jagged-chisel on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @08:33AM (#48731811)

> We will send you an auth code via paper mail. The code expires in 30 minutes.

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