I thought it would be cool to have my own TLD, but apparently it’s all managed by the ICANN, so you can’t just name your website with any TLD you want. There are different prices. But at least you can customize your second level domain. Why aren’t TLDs like this?

  • kitnaht@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    You can use whatever top level domain you want, you just have to convince everyone in the world to use your Root servers instead of ICANN, which ain’t gonna happen. Tor has the .onion TLD, etc. There are no restrictions here. They’re more like…agreements.

    • Binette@lemmy.mlOP
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      2 months ago

      But why did everyone agree to that? Couldn’t domains be determined by user, or at least a bit more decentralized? (ex: google.com leads to IP address 1.1.1.1)

      • kitnaht@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        How is the internet supposed to work if we don’t agree on where every site goes? How are you supposed to decentralize a central agreement?

        • Binette@lemmy.mlOP
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          2 months ago

          I meant more like did it have to be a central agreement for it to scale up to what it is now?