honestly wish there was a better DNS system, perhaps some kind of federated DNS. But it's practically impossible to prevent people from registering a domain that already exists if it's decentralized
hard to explain. kinda like the fediverse, with different servers anyone can host that are all part of the same network. but instead of users and ports, it contains DNS entries and links to other servers on the network
people can host a dns, yeah. but there is no existing way for someone to configure the dns on their client in a way that automatically adds new servers people start hosting.
this would of course be incredibly insecure. And like i mentioned before, there is no way to prevent people from registering new entries that already exist on other servers linked to other ip addresses.
but it would work in a perfect world where no one tries to do anything malicious
@drewdevault I've also been a happy enough customer of gandi for many, many years. I'm sure they have their problems, but I have this far been blissfully unaware of them. Note that I only use them as registrar, not for DNS hosting.
@pojntfx@drewdevault They were decent enough, until they got acquired and started doubling prices. (As far as I can see, they're doing it slowly, one TLD at a time, so you might not have been affected. Yet.)
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