> I always say to buy a domain first.
You can only rent a domain. The landlord is merciless if you miss a payment, you are out.
There are risks everywhere, and it depresses me how fragile is our online identity.
You can only rent a domain. The landlord is merciless if you miss a payment, you are out.
There are risks everywhere, and it depresses me how fragile is our online identity.
If ICANN-approved root.zone and ICANN-approved registries are the only options.
As an experiment I created own registry, not shared with anyone. For many years I have run own root server, i.e., I serve own custom root.zone to all computers I own. I have a search experiment that uses a custom TLD that embeds a well-known classification system. The TLD portion of the domainname can catgorise any product or service on Earth.
ICANN TLDs are vague, ambiguous, sometimes even deceptive.
Any of your special domains will be ones your server claims as authoritative, so I don't understand why you need a root server?
Yes.
None of this is connected to the internet. It is "home lab" stuff.
I have alternatives for so-called "modern" web browsers controlled by advertising companies, too.
For all the third-party-mediated stuff on today's internet I generally have alternatives that let me have more control.
That’s a skill issue though.
I have a domain that i used to pre-pay for years in advance.
For my current main domain i had prepaid nine years in advance and it was paid up to 2028. A couple of years ago i topped it up and now it’s prepaid up to 2032.
It’s not much money (when I prepaid for 9 years i spent like 60€ or so) and you’re usually saving because you’re fixing the price so skipping price hikes, inflation etc.
Yeah, good point!
You very reasonably could replace the whole system with just "lists of trusted keys to names" if the concept has enough popular technical support.