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All individuals should be able to have and own their own domain names

by anthropodie on 6/6/24, 1:42 PM with 9 comments

• by Ajay-p on 6/6/24, 4:05 PM

  For those who were just as mystified as I was when I clicked on the link:

  The main goal of EU.org is to provide free subdomain registration to users or non-profit organizations who cannot afford the fees demanded by some NICs.

  EU.org is not endorsed to any European Union initiative, but it's also not a TLD, only a subdomain.

  How is this different from.. Geocities?

• by senectus1 on 6/7/24, 12:47 AM

  I've taken to buying a .xyz that (mostly) matches the mobile phone number for each of my family.

  That costs me about $10 for 5 years.. I then point it to whatever service they're like me to host for them.

  The offer is being slow on the uptake atm, but I am in the middle of migrating from google photos to immich and that has garnered some interest

• by NikkiA on 6/6/24, 5:17 PM

  Ok, but there are (at least) 4 people in my country with the same name as me, so either it's going to be some shitty name.name4938 deal or someone is going to be disappointed.

• by JoeAltmaier on 6/6/24, 3:05 PM

  But then, we wouldn't need email servers at all! The humanity!