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Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@0xF21D" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>0xF21D</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://awawa.meo.ws/@fusl" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>fusl</span></a></span> granted <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ICANN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ICANN</span></a> has enough resources to actually deal with misconfigred shite pointing at their A-ROOT DNS server...</p><p>As for <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OpenNIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenNIC</span></a>, I do recommend them because they are stable and have a good track record...</p>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.tchncs.de/@Blort" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Blort</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.lol/@emc" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>emc</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@miah" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>miah</span></a></span> </p><p>Use <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OpenNIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenNIC</span></a>!<br><a href="https://infosec.space/@kkarhan/114201410030390264" translate="no" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">infosec.space/@kkarhan/1142014</span><span class="invisible">10030390264</span></a></p>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@0xF21D" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>0xF21D</span></a></span> no, unless you account for <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/datacenters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>datacenters</span></a> and <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OpenNIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenNIC</span></a> members like <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://awawa.meo.ws/@fusl" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>fusl</span></a></span> ...</p>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@miah" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>miah</span></a></span> never did!</p><p>I use <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OpenNIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenNIC</span></a>:</p><p><a href="https://github.com/greyhat-academy/lists.d/blob/main/dns.servers.list.tsv" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/greyhat-academy/lis</span><span class="invisible">ts.d/blob/main/dns.servers.list.tsv</span></a></p>
Aral Balkan<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@codinghorror" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>codinghorror</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://tomkahe.com/@trending_bot" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>trending_bot</span></a></span> Related, longer-term thought, in case it interests you: getting <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 work with <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.privacytools.io/@opennic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>opennic</span></a></span> would put us on a path to set domain names free from the commercial system (after which we could try to get the EU to force browsers to support OpenNIC natively).</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/114173316981178689" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.ar.al/@aral/114173316</span><span class="invisible">981178689</span></a></p><p><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/freeTheDomain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>freeTheDomain</span></a> <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/internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>internet</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/identity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>identity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/decentralisation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>decentralisation</span></a></p>
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>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://possum.city/@root" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>root</span></a></span> consider <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OpenNIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenNIC</span></a> and several <em>"free"</em> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ccTLDs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ccTLDs</span></a>...</p>
X<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@rysiek" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>rysiek</span></a></span> ➡️ <a href="https://pol.social/tags/opennic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>opennic</span></a></p>
Keith Whyte<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://meow.social/@tryst" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>tryst</span></a></span> <br>It's a possibility, but I'm not sure we need to start yet another one. <a href="https://mamut.tic-ac.org/tags/OpenNIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenNIC</span></a><br><a href="https://www.opennic.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">opennic.org/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
B. A. Balackus<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.content.town/@will" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>will</span></a></span><br>Hearing <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.content.town/@bradshoemaker" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bradshoemaker</span></a></span> talk about purchasing possible domains and curious if you have plans to talk about TLDs and ICANN and <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/OpenNIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenNIC</span></a>.org</p>
Aral Balkan<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/@shahaan" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>shahaan</span></a></span> Sadly, yes.</p><p>Our primary expression of identity on the web is something we rent from others. Because capitalism.</p><p>It should be something that’s free that we own as a human right.</p><p>Very easy to implement too, if we wanted to. The EU could easily fund it. We don’t even have to build it, OpenNIC has existed for decades. We could just legislate that browsers must support it in the EU and boom.</p><p><a href="https://www.opennic.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">opennic.org/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></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/identity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>identity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/web" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>web</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/smallWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>smallWeb</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/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></p>