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376 sats \ 15 replies \ @megaptera 15 Jan \ on: Owning a domain? devs
yes, you are correct. You only rent them from a provider which can shut you down any moment. And whats worse is that you have to kyc for every domain you rent. There are some providers that don't require kyc but then the domain is not "yours" and its even easier to shut it down...
If you use the tor network, you can own your domain (private-/publickey) but that's a whole other story...
not true, @jasonb you don't need to KYC to buy domain, you just need to provide certain info, but does not need to be your personal information. For example NameCheap and others offer the option to buy rent domain names with bitcoin, you just create an account using an anonymous email and register the domain you want.
Think about top-level domain (TLD) names like home addresses, is not and never will be yours (or maybe I'm just unaware of the buy forever option). Here the list of all available TLD https://tld-list.com/tlds-from-a-z
You'll see, the .nostr TLD is not there (it will be super cool though) that's because, as @megaptera mentioned providers are centralized and slaves of Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
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For example NameCheap and others offer the option to buy rent domain names with bitcoin, you just create an account using an anonymous email and register the domain you want.
Nice! Super glad I didn't pull the trigger yet!
You'll see, the .nostr TLD is not there (it will be super cool though) that's because, as @megaptera mentioned providers are centralized and slaves of Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
I'm learning some pretty disturbing stuff today. I'm surprised bitcoiners don't discuss this more. ...or maybe I'm not paying enough attention.
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Try register on namecheap with a fantasy name. They wont let you.
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Can someone fund the account so I register and we gift to @jasonb the domains https://bitcoiner.game and https://bitcoiners.game, it's only 0.00639820 BTC
NameCheap BTC address:
bc1q06dut7rut6w9my38wmjk8kqcjydngja84sz4pp
with payjoin: bitcoin:bc1q06dut7rut6w9my38wmjk8kqcjydngja84sz4pp?amount=0.0063982&pj=https://btcpay.namecheap.com/BTC/pj11:44" left
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Holy moly! That would be a lot of sats to gift lil' ol' jasonb for making silly bitcoin games! Thanks for showing it's possible though!! I'm totally doing this (with a way cheaper domain name) ASAP.
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I got canceled after paying. This is no real proof.
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Did it worked out? I got canceled AFTER paying so this is not a proof.
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Thanks so much! This is helpful, albeit a major bummer. So if I do it over tor, is it then only avail on the dark net or can you make it accessible to everyone this way?
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Check https://www.tor2web.org/ ...
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yes correct and this is quite an issue as a lot of people don't know or want to know how to use tor.
You can find more information about how to setup a tor site here: https://community.torproject.org/onion-services/setup/
But if you want to share your information to a broader audience, you better use a regular domain on the clearnet.