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Verisign, the registrar for .com domain names, has decided to increase registration fees by 7% in order to milk the registry to make up for milk lost on certificates. It must be hard work, taking all that money. I wonder if we could pool our money and buy a TLD? Can they even be sold? Not sure I'd want to risk 200K applying for one, because bureaucracy.
10 months ago · 👍 cobradile94, maria, ser
Have you heard of OpenNIC? It's an alternative DNS root, the TLDs they do require no payment.
Due to the nature of it being an alternative root it means people with a 'standard' DNS root can't access your site.
https://www.opennic.org/ · 10 months ago
Having a cost-of-business like TLD registration for running a website is actually a decent way of combatting domain abuse. If domains are too cheap, it becomes really appealing to hoard them. · 10 months ago
or we invest into a distributed dns and create a Gemini TLD · 10 months ago
you can probably jump on the train under denic or something. let them deal with half the bureaucracy? not sure that works. · 10 months ago