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Re: not a utility, was Parler
From: Sabri Berisha <sabri () cluecentral net>
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2021 12:31:14 -0800 (PST)
----- On Jan 11, 2021, at 4:46 AM, Karl Auer kauer () biplane com au wrote: Hi,
"The DNS is a natural monopoly. People want one resolver so they can connect with all their 'sites'. No one is going to use several nameservers for domain name resolution. They want one." Nah. The DNS is a natural distributed database, with authoritative data held by those with the most interest in its accuracy. But unlike DNS data, there is money in collecting all the facebooky things - IF you are allowed to sell them. Stop that, and Facebook is a natural distributed database too.
There is also money being made in DNS. A lot of money is being made in DNS. According to Verisign(1) Q3 of 2020 closed with 370.7 million new registrations. At an average of $15 per domain(2), that equals a market of $5.5 billion dollars. Now, that's of course pocket change compared to Facebook's $21.4 billion Q3 revenue(3), but still. And that's without all those alt-root con schemes. Thanks, Sabri (1) https://www.verisign.com/en_US/domain-names/dnib/index.xhtml (2) https://www.websitebuilderexpert.com/building-websites/domain-name-cost/ (3) https://investor.fb.com/investor-events/event-details/2020/Facebook-Q3-2020-Earnings/default.aspx
Current thread:
- Re: more bad lawyering about Parler, (continued)
- Re: more bad lawyering about Parler William Herrin (Jan 11)
- Re: more bad lawyering about Parler John Levine (Jan 11)
- Re: more bad lawyering about Parler John Levine (Jan 11)
- Re: Parler bzs (Jan 10)
- Re: Parler Matthew Petach (Jan 11)
- Re: Parler William Herrin (Jan 11)
- Re: Parler Aaron C. de Bruyn via NANOG (Jan 10)
- Re: not a utility, was Parler John Levine (Jan 10)
- Re: not a utility, was Parler Rod Beck (Jan 11)
- Re: not a utility, was Parler Karl Auer (Jan 11)
- Re: not a utility, was Parler Sabri Berisha (Jan 11)
- Re: the tiny domain business, not a utility, was Parler John Levine (Jan 11)
- Re: the tiny domain business, not a utility, was Parler Randy Bush (Jan 11)
- Re: not a utility, was Parler Matthew Petach (Jan 11)
- Re: Parler and the total legality of content moderation John Levine (Jan 10)
- Re: Parler Michael Thomas (Jan 10)
- Re: Parler Seth Mattinen (Jan 10)
- Re: do we know what laws apply to Parler John Levine (Jan 10)