hexbear.net comically loses its domain name
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There is a business layer of middle-men who do not need to exist.
ICANN is in the business of running the Internet, not fielding tech support calls from Jones' BBQ and Foot Massage. I'm fine with this layer of separation. Hell, if it was one massive company controlling all the domains worldwide, wouldn't that monopoly be an order of magnitude worse?
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Remember kids, this is why you still need money. This is literally how the Soviet Union collapsed and why China today became a state capitalist.
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I leave em, it's fun to watch them go and post their stickers, it's almost like twitch chat
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My home stuff is like this
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Thats because of how you set it up. If you want individual IP addresses for all your resources, you can get a huge chunk of IPv6 addresses just for yourself. You can get a /48 (65,536) addresses if you set it up with your ISP.
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Yeah totally, it's just wrong to say it's not the majority of them.
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I don’t want to have to pay a registrar, I would like to submit my domains to registers directly. There is a business layer of middle-men who do not need to exist.
You're in luck! You can do this! You can become your own registrar. Cut out the middle man! You only have to pay $4000/year to talk directly to ICANN.
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See? If you don't like DNS, you don't have to use DNS, it's not so hard.
And IPv6 won't be that much harder, it's only... uh... 32 hex digits you'll have to remember, for each website. No big deal.
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Well then you just take whatever you get, it's website roulette.
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Well, Postel has been dead since 1998 and Mills since 2010, so I don't think they're included in people still in control. So they've got that going for them, which is nice, I guess.
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Yes, only 0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:ffff:2e04:fe90. Simple!
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Architects of the internet, they said.
If they said the people currently in charge of the internet are an uneasy alliance of shadowy goons and idiots, afraid to openly break anything too irrevocably but occasionally trying to yank on the wires to see if there isn't some way a little more money inside them somewhere, I would generally agree.
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all the idiots kept in containment by defederation will start jumping ship to other instances, and start causing trouble for users and moderators
Many of them already do that with alt accounts, which would explain the considerable number of downvotes here.
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So the tankie idiots join the bigger pool of non-tankie idiots. How will we ever survive…
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Did you know we have these things called computer files that can store information. There's even one in your router specifically for storing IP addresses
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Blaming capitalism for domain names being a nightmare is hilarious, they are insanely cheap its 12$ a year for a .com, that is all, lol.
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This is just straight up bad planning, they said they have jobs and lives like bro you turn on autorenew you put money in the card, any local business has no issues holding their domain for a decade lol, how do you just not make having it with the person hosting the site a priority.
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This is IMO a risk for many individual owned fediverse instance. Someone has a domain, at a point other admin take over, and the domain owner doesn't renew no matter whether they forget because real life happens or due to some Drama.
Very few instances have a clear legal organizational (like a non profit club) running, which is more flexible when founders step out
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Ah, you're right, I should just look up IP addresses in my NAT table. Maybe I should add comments to it so I know which IP is which.
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You don't actually "buy" domain names. You basically rent them from a registrar. "expired" meant someone forgot to pay rent / renew the lease so control of the name goes back to the registrar. They can just delete it after some grace period but domain names that has traffic going to them has value so they are usually put up for auction, which is what you see here.
