On Oct 16, 2022, at 23:03, Christian Huitema <[email protected]> wrote:
> The main problem with "giraffe.org" and similar is that the subdomains are > leased, not owned. A glitch in the renewal, and they are grabbed by some > domain catcher and redirected to "my sexy giraffe" or some such. On the face of it that seems like a compelling endorsement of the idea, that the biggest risk is one that has proven not to be a significant problem in aggregate for other lesser-known and marginal uses of the DNS such as, oh I don't know, the web or e-mail. The risks in this case are even lower than in those use-cases, since a one-time payment secures a renewable ten year lease which is enough to exceed the effective lifetime of any alternative naming scheme seen to date by quite some margin, and the effect of not renewing presumably only presents risks to queries leaked to the DNS which were those that didn't give the user the result they were expecting in the first place, anyway. Despite your endorsement, however, I suspect people will continue to ignore this approach in favour of squatting on top-level labels, a fate that seems likely to be replicated faithfully with alt. That was the point I was apparently not able to refrain from repeating, really. Joe _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
