Aral Balkan

#freedomain

Here’s an idea: how about a law that mandates that an open domain name registry, free for all citizens, is included in every ISP’s DNS settings by default, alongside InterNIC.

Oh, and look, someone already built it even: https://OpenNIC.org

This one little change could do wonders for individual sovereignty and decentralisation on the Internet.

It could do for owning your own online identity what Let’s Encrypt did for democratising secure web sites.

#commons #eu

OpenNIC Project

An organization of hobbyists who run an alternative DNS network, also provides access to domains not administered by ICANN.

Jan 16, 2018 at 3:47pmWeb
Show threadBrendan HowellJan 16, 2018
@aral if this were a registrar that were free then yes, I'd be all over it (like Let's Encrypt) but this appears to be another alt-dns root. These have been around for 20+ years and don't really offer a d-cent alternative. Or have I missed something?
Show threadAral BalkanJan 17, 2018
@KnowPresent Add the alt-DNS root to every ISP’s DNS settings and you have a co-DNS root ;)