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mikael

So many shenanigans in the domain space!

Couldn’t a trusted nonprofit (say @eff or ISRG) buy a gTLD from ICANN, become a registrar and rent out domains at (very close to) self-cost with no insane price hikes? Picture what ISRG did with @letsencrypt, but for domains.

Running costs for this would currently be a fixed fee of US$6,250 per calendar quarter and a transaction fee of US$0.25[1]. These costs could be split on all registrants.

[1] newgtlds.icann.org/en/applican

Probably have to @ @Seirdy 😃

8 Aug 2023 at 22:30 | Open on merveilles.town
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Liaizon Wakest

@mikael @eff @letsencrypt @Seirdy I would love to see this happen too. I feel like the @njalla folks might have looked into something like this or might know more at least what the bounds of this potential are

8 Aug 2023 at 22:36 | Open on social.wake.st
mikael

Some would probably say that .org is the answer, but the PIR drama in 2020[1] shows how fragile this system is. We *need* a TLD that doesn’t need to be saved by the @eff from hostile takeovers.

imagine: more registrants would mean lower prices. That’s far from how gTLDs function now. A sudden spike in interest could introduce a sudden price increase.

[1] eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/how-

@letsencrypt @Seirdy @liaizon

8 Aug 2023 at 23:23 | Open on merveilles.town
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