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Comment by psychoslave

2 months ago

Domain TLD is the one administratively completely entangled into USA system while playing a major role on the internet working as it does. ICANN should definitely be an international entity, like UNESCO.

All other points are "mere" technical gaps.

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willy__  2 months ago

I am still baffled.. compare a domain like .party or .parts between porkbun or your major US based providers and a EU based registrar of your choosing.... It's not pretty, at least it wasn't to me.

  • LeonidasXIV  2 months ago

    Porkbun has .party for $21.09 (bar the first year promotion, not sure about VAT) and INWX (DE, VAT included) has it 32.80€ . It is definitely more but not as scary as you made it sound.

    • stayallive  2 months ago

      It’s not all bad. I hope you don’t mind tooting my own horn. But there are providers who try to keep prices reasonable: https://domain.chief.app/pricing (disclaimer: this is mine)

      I must say though that this (at this stage) is mostly only possible because a few (also Dutch) reseller titans that allow me to be affordable.

      The cost of entry as registrar into ICANN TLDs is pretty high

    • Nurw  2 months ago

      Huh, thats weird. I am from Norway, and I have always used domainname.shop, a Norwegian service. .party seems to be at around 7.49€ a year (bar the first year promotion)

      It is not a super fancy website, and the company is pretty old, but I don't really need a lot from my DNS provider anyways.