JdeBP<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@jtk" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>jtk</span></a></span> </p><p>Some of them weren't rackets. They were genuine attempts to do the Internet thing of "routing around" ICANN when it obstructed change for years.</p><p>I think that the way to tell the difference is whether they still exist these decades later, now that ICANN has *eventually* allowed more top-level domain names and the obstruction that were aimed at removing has gone.</p><p>The Open Root Server Confederation went the way of the dodo so long ago that <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Wikipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wikipedia</span></a> deleted the article on it in 2006, because someone with an IP address could not find WWW pages about it even then.</p><p>Whereas the people offering .coin, .emc, and .bazar top-level domains in conjunction with OpenNIC are still going today. (-:</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/OpenRootServerConfederation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenRootServerConfederation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/cryptocurrency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cryptocurrency</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/DNS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DNS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ICANN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICANN</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/OpenNIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenNIC</span></a></p>
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Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gharbeia" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>gharbeia</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>aral</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>EUCommission</span></a></span> I mean, <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OpenNIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenNIC</span></a> works as an alternative rootzone, and <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/NameDotSpace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NameDotSpace</span></a> allegedly failed at sueing <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ICANN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICANN</span></a> for their monopoly.</p><p>As for <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/certificates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>certificates</span></a>, <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@cacert" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>cacert</span></a></span> iron'd out that ages ago...</p>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@miah" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>miah</span></a></span> never did!</p><p>I use <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OpenNIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenNIC</span></a>:</p><p><a href="https://github.com/greyhat-academy/lists.d/blob/main/dns.servers.list.tsv" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/greyhat-academy/lis</span><span class="invisible">ts.d/blob/main/dns.servers.list.tsv</span></a></p>
Aral Balkan<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@codinghorror" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>codinghorror</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://tomkahe.com/@trending_bot" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>trending_bot</span></a></span> Related, longer-term thought, in case it interests you: getting <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@letsencrypt" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>letsencrypt</span></a></span> to work with <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.privacytools.io/@opennic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>opennic</span></a></span> would put us on a path to set domain names free from the commercial system (after which we could try to get the EU to force browsers to support OpenNIC natively).</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/114173316981178689" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.ar.al/@aral/114173316</span><span class="invisible">981178689</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/OpenNIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenNIC</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/LetsEncrypt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LetsEncrypt</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/freeTheDomain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>freeTheDomain</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/domainNames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>domainNames</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>internet</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/identity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>identity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/decentralisation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>decentralisation</span></a></p>
Aral Balkan<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/@zbrando" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>zbrando</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://appdot.net/@morrick" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>morrick</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/@ueeu" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>ueeu</span></a></span> You’re not wrong.</p><p>But, looking ahead, we can do so much better than the commercial domain name system.</p><p>Commercial domain names are a gold standard example of artificial scarcity. A domain name registrar cost next to nothing to operate. It’s tiny rows of text in a database. It could easily be free to own your own domain name – a huge part of what constitutes identity – on the Internet.</p><p>In fact, a non-commercial service has been operational for 24 years. It would be trivial to regulate that browsers in the EU implement support for it and work together with, say, <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@letsencrypt" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>letsencrypt</span></a></span> to ensure it can handle TLS.</p><p>That would be an amazing addition to the commons and a future-proof way forward that we could lead on with next to no investment.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/domainNames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>domainNames</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/DNS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DNS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/openNic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>openNic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/LetsEncrypt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LetsEncrypt</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EU</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/commons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>commons</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>internet</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/freedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>freedom</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/ICAAN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICAAN</span></a></p>
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