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Posted by HumanCCF 1 day ago

.self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting(hccf.onmy.cloud)
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mghackerlady 8 hours ago|
well that sucks, I just bought a domain for this purpose. Granted, I was under extremely heavy budget constraints so perhaps I wouldn't have been able to afford one. There was a sale on .club domains, so I picked that with a funny name (beatsyouwith.club (no, nothing is hosted on it publicly yet I'm lazy))
NoGravitas 7 hours ago||
I very much like the idea, but governance is going to be heck.
2001zhaozhao 21 hours ago||
The $1/year numerical .xyz domain is pretty affordable already, and there are multiple providers now with free DNS services.
mercutio2 2 hours ago|
Yup. $1/year is a great price point for avoiding squatters and proving there’s someone paying attention, truly de minimis.

I’m happy with my .xyz domain for my homelab.

Setting up split horizon DNS was more of a pain than I expected, but it works now over headscale.

pavel_lishin 1 day ago||
> One Person, One Subdomain

> - Everyone entitled to a subdomain at no cost

One subdomain, or one subdomain? Would I be entitled to something like "pavel.hosts.self"?

internetter 20 hours ago||
a sub (level below) domain from a top level domain (.self) would presumably be pavel.self
Hugsbox 1 day ago||
Seems like an idea that would be abused badly, quickly
spooneybarger 22 hours ago||
I, as a human, find that website decidedly unfriendly to quickly getting information. Particularly on mobile.
danielpetrica 18 hours ago||
Sounds like a unified directory of domain with lower security that attackers can target to me. not sure the domain for self hosting is such a great idea.
walrus01 15 hours ago||
Do the people who are promoting this know that it costs approx. $227,000 to apply for a new gTLD with ICANN?
edent 15 hours ago|
The Applicant Support Programme makes it significantly cheaper (if they qualify).

See https://newgtldprogram.icann.org/en/application-rounds/round...

And https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dotmeow/meow-next-round...

Grimblewald 21 hours ago||
In this econimy? where google's full might is behind killing self-hosting? Be still, my beating heart --- there may be hope yet.
robertlagrant 1 day ago||
Will Self[0] is going to love this.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Self

skywhopper 5 hours ago|
I’m very confused. This is a web page with an embedded single-page PDF (!?) that gives zero details about how the project would work, be funded, or even look like. What is there to even discuss? Nothing about this seems very “human centered” to me.
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