I thought it would be cool to have my own TLD, but apparently it’s all managed by the ICANN, so you can’t just name your website with any TLD you want. There are different prices. But at least you can customize your second level domain. Why aren’t TLDs like this?
I’ve seen the crypto scams, unfortunately, which is basically what brought me to ask this question.
Is there a reason why they decided that domain names should be owned? Cause it kinda sounds like the metaverse, but older (like buying digital land and stuff). And idk, it just leaves a bad taste for me at least.
Because if they’re not owned, then how do you know who is who? How do we independently conclude that yup,
microsoft.comgoes to Microsoft, without some central authority managing who’s who?It’s first come first served which is a bit biased towards early adopters, but I can’t think of a better system where you go to
google.comand reliably end up at Google. If everyone had a different idea of where that should send you it would be a nightmare, we’d be back to passing IP addresses on post-it notes to your friends to make sure we end up on the sameyoutube.com. When you type an address you expect to end up on the site you asked, and nothing else. You don’t want to end up on Comcast YouTube because your ISP decided that’s whereyoutube.comgoes, you expect and demand the real one, the same as everyone else.And there’s still the massive server costs to run a dictionary for literally the entire Internet for all of that to work.
A lot of the times, when asking those kinds of questions, it’s useful to think about how would you implement it such that it would work. It usually answers the question.