ICANN should make a .solar extension with the caveat that you have to provide evidence yearly that all IPs mapped by the domain were running on solar power
That ... is actually an awesome idea! The condition for getting a domain name should be to have a public consumption and battery status page.
Which anybody could fake - literally pointless tld. What business could benefit from this?
encouraging innovation, dont be so negative
It would be quite entertaining for one to watch the large solar manufacturers have to put their money where their mouth is for their entire public facing websites if they want a .solar domain
Why the distinction between solar vs other renewable energy sources?
.waterwheel
.volcanopower
I'd buy a .volcanopower
.turbine would also be fun.
Maybe leverage "specialization + trade" and have some 'SCDN' (Solar Content Delivery Network).
Can't force me to disclose my subdomains. Maybe for the @ A record.
ICANN can do whatever they want, so they could do things differently for this extension. Wouldn't have to publicly disclose either -- just to the auditors at ICANN who would check yearly that all the IPs that have been mapped have a paper trail showing only solar or renewable energy sources, something of that nature. It's not as impossible as it sounds, especially considering the small number of entities that would do it. Analogous to filing your taxes every year, and we do that just fine.