>Be a shitty registrar that gets hacked
>Only value proposition your business has ever offered is that you don't ask questions or respond to abuse reports
>Get bought out
>New social media manager sets out to implode what's left of the business
Hmm.
@ArdainianRight@Hoss 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
@af2@ArdainianRight@Hoss 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
@graf@ArdainianRight@Hoss we have that it's called tor!
Is ICANN actually responsible for most of the censorship and deplatforming though? They just enforce the abuse report functionality that gets abused, so fix that (easy) and you're good.
@ForbiddenDreamer@Hoss@graf@ArdainianRight 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.
@af2@ArdainianRight@DemonSixOne@ForbiddenDreamer@graf@Hoss that is pointless and retarded
no one is going to type in all that shit, big tech can easily block links from being shared, and literally the only visitors you'll ever get are chinese spam bots and cats who've walked across an unattended keyboard
@skylar@af2@ArdainianRight@DemonSixOne@ForbiddenDreamer@graf@Hoss On one hand, most of the websites I regularly use are stored in bookmarks, and I imagine you could probably make something like this work that way, maybe with a browser extension or something that makes the process a little more normie-friendly.
On the other, the adoption problem is the big issue, in that anyone competent enough to do something like this is already able to maintain a normal URL, albeit with the occasional downtime, and anyone competent enough to use something like this already has the TOR address of any site that might go down in a notepad file. The time to make something happen with these kinds of URLs would've been that big crypto bubble where millions upon millions of people were excited about anything blockchain.
Back in the crypto bubble days, you could've had people 'stake' (basically just having it in your wallet and not using it on any other site at the same time) Ethereum on binding a site to a URL, and the softmax value of integral of staked money on a website would be used to tell users at a glance how legit it was. For example, if I have a site 'cat.blockchain', and I've had roughly $10,000 in Ethereum allocated to making this site as the most legit owner of that URL for a year, while a few other guys have intermittently put up $100 or so to tie their own sites to the URL for shits and giggles, a user entering 'cat.blockchain' into whatever web3 app was used for navigation here would say:
> Go to <Ame's wallet address>'s cat.blockchain? (97% owner)
> Go to <random guy's address>'s cat.blockchain? (0.5% owner)
> ...
Would've been relatively clean and straightforward, but the demographic of people who are techy enough to use non-standard URLs but non-techy enough not to just use Tor was a bit of a flash in the pan.
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