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by stopagephobia 1683 days ago
Some of us People of Age remember when getting a good domain was easy before squatters :)

And yes its hard now. In real life you can have the same business name in two different business areas as long as it doesn't cause confusion. I think we should get rid of domains all the way, I should be able to register any text and make it DNS resolve.

Only answer for having squatters is to make any "domain" buyable so they can't get all the good ones.
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rustc 1683 days ago
> I think we should get rid of domains all the way, I should be able to register any text and make it DNS resolve.

> Only answer for having squatters is to make any "domain" buyable so they can't get all the good ones.

How's that any different from the current domain name system? There will still be only one owner of the text "google" or "begin".

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stopagephobia 1683 days ago
Because then there is also g.oogle, go.ogle, goo.gle, goog.le, googl.e. Or my.google. Or whatever, more options.
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winternett 1683 days ago
Running my own development service, I usually manage to find unique names for people all the time. If they really need a specific name, it's not always expensive to buy it from certain (legit only) places...

We don't use AWS for most of our solutions, we still use traditional (fixed price) hosting. AWS changed hosting into a utility-based service that can balloon way too fast, and they make TONS of money off of unsuspecting clients, especially government clients. It's wild to see their bills at times for even simple web sites that don't get tons of traffic. On-Prem services are better sometimes, but no-one wants to hear that.

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