----- On Jan 11, 2021, at 4:46 AM, Karl Auer [email protected] wrote: Hi,
> "The DNS is a natural monopoly. People want one resolver so they can > connect with all their 'sites'. No one is going to use several > nameservers for domain name resolution. They want one." > > Nah. The DNS is a natural distributed database, with authoritative data > held by those with the most interest in its accuracy. But unlike DNS > data, there is money in collecting all the facebooky things - IF you > are allowed to sell them. Stop that, and Facebook is a natural > distributed database too. There is also money being made in DNS. A lot of money is being made in DNS. According to Verisign(1) Q3 of 2020 closed with 370.7 million new registrations. At an average of $15 per domain(2), that equals a market of $5.5 billion dollars. Now, that's of course pocket change compared to Facebook's $21.4 billion Q3 revenue(3), but still. And that's without all those alt-root con schemes. Thanks, Sabri (1) https://www.verisign.com/en_US/domain-names/dnib/index.xhtml (2) https://www.websitebuilderexpert.com/building-websites/domain-name-cost/ (3) https://investor.fb.com/investor-events/event-details/2020/Facebook-Q3-2020-Earnings/default.aspx
