https://nitter.cattube.org/cgtnamerica/status/1407387749099966465#m

https://twitter.com/cgtnamerica/status/1407387749099966465#m

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  • blobjim [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    It's a domain name, not the actual web servers. If you know the IP address you can still get to the site. The domain was either taken over somehow in the US or it's a US hosted domain name. I think .com can be hosted in multiple/any countries though.

      • blobjim [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Yeah it looks like all .com, .net, and .org domains are owned by US companies. Other domains aren't though (like ccTLDs), but are obviously less memorable. Of course other countries could start doing their own thing while still using the DNS protocol itself, but that seems unlikely to happen and would cause a lot of fragmentation. I feel like I rarely enter domain names anyways.

        It looks like they've already started using something similar in Russia, but not for the same reason: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_DNS_root#Russian_National_Domain_Name_System

        It is really stupid how ICANN does give most domains to American companies. Basically every domain that isn't a specific country is just given to some American shell company. It looks like there have been calls to move it to the UN. I don't know why most countries in the UN don't just set create a UN org to do that and just ignore the US. The whole thing really is this stupid capitalist structure where companies try to get control over domains and stuff.

          • blobjim [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            I think it's still pretty decent given the circumstances. DNS is pretty well designed otherwise. Email exists thankfully. Internet packet routing itself isn't too bad. The problem is there is really nothing new in terms of protocols being adopted that are similar to email and DNS. Email feels clunkier by the day while messaging apps with proprietary protocols controlled by a single company gain more and more functionality and use. Standardized messaging protocols and similar things are rarely picked up by any company. And some companies pretend like they're creating some open thing like Signal, but it's just another reinvention of the wheel controlled by a closed group. And there's always people pushing magical "decentralized" stuff, but it's never really a solution to anything.

            Email (SMTP and IMAP protocols) is the model that should be followed but it isn't "sexy" enough and there's no profit incentive for anyone to make anything standardized. Protocols like Session Initiation Protocol exist for messaging and VoIP/Video but they're kinda clunky and people don't want to do the work of implementing them.

            • thisismyrealname [he/him]
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              3 years ago

              yeah i agree, the design of the internet is pretty good, i guess my gripe is how much control private companies have over the actual implementation. like, why the fuck do google and amazon get their own TLDs? (the latter is especially egregious IMO considering they basically stole it from latam countries where the actual rainforest is)

              • blobjim [he/him]
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                3 years ago

                lmao I didn't even think about that for the .amazon domain. They literally colonized a name 😭