How do internet domains work? Who are you paying?
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As a web dev and general techie, I understand why we have the TLD system we have. As a person who hates the direction most of the internet has taken in the past fifteen years or so, it feels counter to the founding philosophy of the internet and open source that a few giant corps control this fundamental element of the internet. I want to be able to create my own domain, that isn’t already being used, and own it. The fact that I have to pay an internet mafia for the privilege of using a domain I created that no one else has yet feels wrong.
I assume Onion sites operate more in line with original internet philosophy but no one can remember an onion address. I don’t know what kind of new invention in this space would give power back to creators and developers but I’m all for it if someone figures something out.
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