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?

  • Binette@lemmy.mlOP
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    5 hours 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)

    • superkret@feddit.org
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      5 hours ago

      DNS isn’t just an address book, it determines ownership. So in a decentralized system I could just spin up some servers that direct anyone in my area trying to reach PayPal to my IP instead.

    • kitnaht@lemmy.world
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      5 hours 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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        5 hours ago

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