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0 pointsYeahsureok3y ago0 comments

> attempting to sell the Brooklyn Bridge

Handshake reserved the top 100,000 Alexa domains and allowed all trademark name holders to claim theirs.

Not to mention the ten million in FOSS grants for developers to build tooling

Sadly the ideologues will somehow decry their attempts for an alternative while defending the indefensible ICAAN.

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Handshake requires domain owners to pay a biennial "mining fee" to maintain their names, even for names that were "airdropped" to FOSS projects. This is no less of a grift than ICANN.

tptacek3y ago

Oh, that's nice of Handshake. Definitely it makes sense to me now that Handshake should be able to sell the domain namespace! Why not, if they're going to donate to FOSS?

My question to you is: if I donate MAC addresses to FOSS projects, can I tokenize ARP? I promise to be nice about it. The first 10,000 IP addresses can have their ARPCoin for free.

Seriously, this FOSS donation thing with Handshake: it's like selling people the Brooklyn Bridge, but promising generous new bike lanes. See, the FOSS stuff? It wasn't the problem with the plan.

verdverm3y ago

What about everyone else after the 100k? What recourse are they left with when their domain is/was taken by another party? Which party should own the domain? How would doubly registered domains be resolved?

kelthuzad3y ago

They will remain on their original tld, so brand.com will remain brand.com, they just won't automatically receive their own brand tld, unless they manually start the auction themselves.

verdverm3y ago

so those below 100k were not reserved, a squatter bought their brand tld, what recourse do they have? What about new brands that have reached the 100k mark since the great reservation?

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0 pointsYeahsureok3y ago0 comments

> attempting to sell the Brooklyn Bridge

Handshake reserved the top 100,000 Alexa domains and allowed all trademark name holders to claim theirs.

Not to mention the ten million in FOSS grants for developers to build tooling

Sadly the ideologues will somehow decry their attempts for an alternative while defending the indefensible ICAAN.

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greyface-3y ago

Handshake requires domain owners to pay a biennial "mining fee" to maintain their names, even for names that were "airdropped" to FOSS projects. This is no less of a grift than ICANN.

tptacek3y ago

Oh, that's nice of Handshake. Definitely it makes sense to me now that Handshake should be able to sell the domain namespace! Why not, if they're going to donate to FOSS?

My question to you is: if I donate MAC addresses to FOSS projects, can I tokenize ARP? I promise to be nice about it. The first 10,000 IP addresses can have their ARPCoin for free.

Seriously, this FOSS donation thing with Handshake: it's like selling people the Brooklyn Bridge, but promising generous new bike lanes. See, the FOSS stuff? It wasn't the problem with the plan.

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kelthuzad3y ago

They will remain on their original tld, so brand.com will remain brand.com, they just won't automatically receive their own brand tld, unless they manually start the auction themselves.

verdverm3y ago

so those below 100k were not reserved, a squatter bought their brand tld, what recourse do they have? What about new brands that have reached the 100k mark since the great reservation?

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