[HN Gopher] How We Saved Dot Org
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How We Saved Dot Org
Author : thomasahle
Score : 107 points
Date : 2020-12-23 20:31 UTC (2 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.eff.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.eff.org)
| breck wrote:
| Ah yes, bravo EFF, you've won another battle barely keeping us at
| the status quo.
|
| When are you going to stop playing whack-a-mole trying to defend
| against every assault on internet freedoms and go on the
| offensive and try to win the game for the good guys?
|
| We now have the ability to give the poorest child on earth access
| to the same information as the richest, and yet we allow industry
| to shackle us instead.
|
| It's time to demand intellectual freedom. #AbolishCopyright.
| #AbolishPatents. #AbolishImaginaryPropertyLaws
| eps wrote:
| No formal investigation into the ICANN corruption that led to
| this situation in the first place?
| kevin_thibedeau wrote:
| Cali AG was looking into it.
| longtailofsighs wrote:
| I love a lot of what the EFF does, but this campaign, and many
| other organizations involved in it got a lot wrong. The real
| issue, that in fairness the EFF leads with, was the change in the
| .org contract, not the sale itself. The most robust overview of
| the whole thing that I have read can be found here:
| https://www.internetgovernance.org/2020/05/01/no-real-winner...
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| Whether people like it or not the operation of the DNS, including
| .org, is a commercial endeavor. It doesn't make sense to focus
| only on .org, when a) Registrars not Registries are the real
| place to try and protect Registrants. b) Org has always been open
| to anyone, and their are likely as many, if not more civil
| society organizations in com, net, and other tlds.
| techsupporter wrote:
| > Whether people like it or not the operation of the DNS,
| including .org, is a commercial endeavor.
|
| It's about disparate impact, as is the case in many things that
| have extensive histories around them.
|
| That .org was allowed to drift from its original mission of
| being the "catch-all / noncommercial" zone of the DNS doesn't
| mean we shouldn't work to nudge it back to that original ideal.
| At a minimum, allowing what is arguably a public good (DNS is a
| limited space, though less limited than phone numbers or RF
| allocations) to be transferred and barricaded is not good.
| rhizome wrote:
| > _Whether people like it or not the operation of the DNS,
| including .org, is a commercial endeavor_
|
| Whether people like it or not, this doesn't have to mean
| privatized, nor profitable.
| wolco2 wrote:
| The fees on .org are expensive compared to the other top level
| domains com/net
|
| I recently switched from org to the countrycode version for a
| domain that was available and saved half of the cost.
| reidjs wrote:
| So $1 per month instead of $2?
| nso wrote:
| Not everyone counts their holdings in USD. That price
| difference may be what sets a launched and abandoned project
| apart.
|
| One of my neighbors is 17 and interested in coding and
| computers. I'd say their family MAYBE brings in 250 USD a
| month -- but probably less. A dollar can be a lot.
| rodone wrote:
| Yeah, let's get private equity involved, that'll make it
| cheaper for sure.
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