sorry for the late reply. jellyware has been offline
great suggestion. thanks. guess what you are talking about is the same as what happens now with the au.com domain. people get a subdomain to use.
maybe people could get the subdomain name to use free and get space on their own server for putting their data. maybe we could gpl the interface that makes it all possible. some consistency of services could be nice.
peter
> sorry for going offtopic in my previous post
(this is kind of off-topic too...)
> I'm interested in talking about making a domain name open and accessable
> for everyone
>
> you told me the other night you can only GPL code. can't you call a
> domain name a simple piece of code? It seems to give a computer some
> instruction
No, a domain name is nothing like a file with source code in it. You can't
put a source code license on a domain name. A domain name is a scarce
resource - there is only one, leased to you by the registrar. You can't copy
it, modify it, distribute it, etc.
If you want to make a domain name "open and accessible for everyone", you
might be suggesting that anyone can create a subdomain and point it to their
systems? That would require the owner of the domain name to configure domain
records for each of those subdomain owners (there are plenty of these about,
mostly called 'dynamic dns' services). It's a service, not something you can
put a source code license on.
- Jeff
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