"RIP Jon."

In the 90s when learning about the internet I remember reading stuff written by "Jon Postel", a univeristy employee in California

Today, a curious student trying to learn about the internet would probably end up reading stuff written by "Big Tech" and/or academics who have financial relationships with these or other so-called "tech" companies

I remember Postel and one other person, perhaps at SRI, I forget her name, had a plan for these sort of hierarchical geographical domainnames. I recall it was _not_ commercial in nature. It "seemed like" Postel saw the internet, including DNS, as a public service. Needless to say, any such non-commercial vision was not realised

ICANN DNS became a money grab

If Postel had survived to today, would he have sold out like so many of his peers

I like to pretend he would not but I have no idea

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donmcronald an hour ago | parent [-]

> ICANN DNS became a money grab

It’s too bad more people don’t understand how the domain industry is structured under ICANN. IMO, the registries are ICANN’s customers, the registrants are part of the product being sold, and the registrars are a liability shield.

One day there will be a grab for .com.

	▲	Barbing 38 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Fun fact (you probably remember), you used to report phishing sites with one simple email and they would actually be taken down. These days I get the feeling a lot of the registrars are essentially/effectively in on it (at least by inaction). A well-run ICANN feels needed, who can track takedown compliance.