The commercial domain name system is a perfect example of the type of artificial scarcity capitalism creates and exploits.
Domain names are tiny little rows in a database. They cost next-to-nothing to set up and maintain. There’s absolutely no reason why they couldn’t be a public good, paid for from the public purse.
And yet you pay (at times extortionate) amounts for them… why?
Because capitalism.
Isn't this a bit simplistic? Domain names are a limited resource, so there has to be some way to regulate who can use which domains. What alternative method of regulation would you propose and why it's better?
