| ▲ | convolvatron 5 hours ago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
this is going to be an unpopular opinion, but this was the inevitable result of changing a function with trivial cost and broad social utility (name registration) from a public service to a commercial one. at the time we heard a lot of standard arguments about the innovation and competition that only a market based solution could bring. its really not a surprise that this is the kind of innovation that resulted. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | londons_explore 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Yes - domain registries should be run by the government. DNS etc can be run by third parties | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | ranger_danger 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
How would that help? The government could still block domains registered by people in adversarial countries. Personally I would not want the US government controlling and micro-managing who gets to have a .com domain. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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