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Comment by childintime

I'd say it far too hard to bring up a personal site. Why are there no free tier zero config markdown web hosts including a custom domain for $20/yr? Why doesn't the domain registration entitle you to a single static 100kB page, and/or a redirect to some shared my-site.on.domain.com? Instead there is brittle configuration and/or having to contract a third party.

Come to think of it, what has ICANN been doing with their monopoly? Where is all that (10 figure?) money going to? I don't mind a tax, in fact open source infrastructure would benefit greatly from (tax-financed) bounties, but I see nothing being offered in return. Who's drinking from this neverending firehose?

parent childintime 3 years ago

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