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One thing that is critically important to the open web is that domain names are not subject to the whims of the owner of the TLD. The owners of .music have pretty free range to take your domain away. No.
Yea this means we have sites with nazis but it also means we have sites with unhinged, broke trannies and who do you think businesses would get rid of first?
Well don’t take my assumptions, how is big tech corpo doing lately with nazis? Pandering to them? oh well they are pandering to the troons too right? Right??
Anyway just the ramblings of a girl who registered her first domain almost 30 years ago, by mailing a handwritten form and paper check for $100 my mom wrote to Network Solutions
(I didn’t have access to a fax machine to submit the paperwork so I mailed it usps)
(yes really. there was a single company that sold domains and this was the process)
(you could email nameserver update requests though, they were manually verified and often just not verified at all)
Fun story about that last bit: in 1999 there were a couple articles written in the Washington Post and Wired when NS processed a domain change without properly verifying it… and I was the new owner of one of the top 5 most trafficked domains at the time (excite.com it was important at the time lol).