Aral Balkan<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/@zbrando" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" 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 noreferrer" 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 noreferrer" 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 noreferrer" 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 noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>domainNames</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/DNS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DNS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/openNic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>openNic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/LetsEncrypt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LetsEncrypt</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EU</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/commons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>commons</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>internet</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/freedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>freedom</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/ICAAN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ICAAN</span></a></p>