[cityzen]

I think the web is still so new that people will really struggle to understand a decentralized web. Even 20 years on and .com still reigns supreme as the best TLD around.

I'm in tech and I'm interested in a decentralized web but I also feel that throwing the baby out with the bathwater isn't a great idea. The article says, "The decentralised web, or DWeb, could be a chance to take control of our data back from the big tech firms." To me it sounds like we're basically saying, "ok Facebook/Google/Twitter/Instagram... you're all too big to regulate so we're going to build A WHOLE NEW INTERNET". If they're smart enough to pollute the current system, they're smart enough to pollute a new system. In fact, these corporations are so big that you'll find out eventually that they've funded quite a bit of this decentralized web.

As a parent, I would feel at least a little better seeing some bankers, Pharma bros, tech execs, etc. actually go to jail and have their lives ruined for their blatant disregard of pretty much everything. I don't want to tell my kids, "well, we're too dumb to regulate the internet so we made another one.. and that one got messed up too... herp derp"

[troquerre]

.com still reigns supreme but the icann only recently started letting people register new TLDs, and even then only 500 a year are registered. Handshake is helping to solve this by decentralizing DNS and letting anyone register new TLDs, so in the future .com may be way less popular than it is today.

Disclosure: I founded Namebase.io which is a registrar for Handshake

[wolco]

When you use a .com you expect the domain to just work.

When you pick a random tld like .io for example you are not getting the reliability of a .com. .io had a few big issues last year (1/5 of dns queries were failing, ex-google employee bought ns-a1.io and was able to take over all .ios).

As more tlds come from good and bad faith actors people will flock to .com as a known respected entity. Limiting to .com, .org, .net and country codes and slowly introducing new tlds made more sense and gave time to estiblish trust / create brand awareness. 500 a year creates noise and forces distrust of any unusual or new tld.