"Let's Encrypt is a golden example of how creating inalienable good is possible with the right approach and the right values. And while I'm excited about the work Let's Encrypt has done, I am eager to see their work continue to keep up with the growing Web; to sustain encryption for everybody at Internet scale. To do so is going to take more than me—it's going to take a community of people committed to this work. I am confident Let's Encrypt is a project that deserves all of our support, in ways both large and small." https://letsencrypt.org/2025/03/18/community-of-funders/
Ten Years of Let's Encrypt: Announcing support from Jeff Atwood

As we touched on in our first blog post highlighting ten years of Let’s Encrypt: Just as remarkable to us as the technical innovations behind proliferating TLS at scale is, so too is the sustained generosity we have benefited from throughout our first decade. With that sense of gratitude top of mind, we are proud to announce a contribution of $1,000,000 from Jeff Atwood. Jeff has been a longtime supporter of our work, beginning many years ago with Discourse providing our community forum pro bono; something Discourse still provides to this day.

@codinghorror @trending_bot Related, longer-term thought, in case it interests you: getting @letsencrypt to work with @opennic would put us on a path to set domain names free from the commercial system (after which we could try to get the EU to force browsers to support OpenNIC natively).

https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/114173316981178689

#OpenNIC #LetsEncrypt #freeTheDomain #domainNames #internet #identity #decentralisation

Aral Balkan (@[email protected])

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] You’re not wrong. But, looking ahead, we can do so much better than the commercial domain name system. Commercial domain names are a gold standard example of artificial scarcity. A domain name registrar cost next to nothing to operate. It’s tiny rows of text in a database. It could easily be free to own your own domain name – a huge part of what constitutes identity – on the Internet. In fact, a non-commercial service has been operational for 24 years. It would be trivial to regulate that browsers in the EU implement support for it and work together with, say, @[email protected] to ensure it can handle TLS. That would be an amazing addition to the commons and a future-proof way forward that we could lead on with next to no investment. #domainNames #DNS #openNic #LetsEncrypt #EU #commons #internet #freedom #ICAAN

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