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  vlyan
  >Verisign’s financial filings indicate it costs Verisign approximately $3 per domain to operate .com domainsto maintain a few hundred bytes in a database small enough to be served from a computer from the 90s?
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  chrismorgan
  It’s not just Verisign on .com; the entire gTLD system is corrupt (ccTLDs vary). .org and .info are probably even clearer examples.I have wondered at times whether gTLDs were a mistake and everything should have been under ccTLDs.
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  trilogic
  The real class action case is that the huge stream of money flow is not cashing in Europe at all, not a cent. Who the f owns the infrastructure? If I buy a domain from and in Europe the money got to stay in Europe.
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  zx8080
  I'm curious. That's the class action from US residents. Would this thing effectively force Verisign to overcharge those purchasing .com domains from outside of the US (while lowering the price for those inside the US)?
• zokier
  This whole case seems to hinge on the argument that .com domains somehow constitute their own market, instead of being just part of wider domain name market with plenty of competing registrys. That might prove difficult argument in court.
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  crossroadsguy
  Aren't we close to decentralised domains or some sort of easy and open web indentifiers? But I think whatever we go for there are always middle-entities (aka middlemen). Crypto, and everything else. The choice comes down to either having to something like a SHA256 hash as an identifier or pay somone and then also get controlled by that someone and then with that comes the whole charade and laundry list of potential problems. That's why classic domains stuck around. Everything is a hassle and controlled, so go with something that is actually established.Same goes for payment methods. I recently tried to buy some crypto to pay for (legally) at some "legit" sites like openrouter. I gave up after 2-3 days. Tried exchanges in my own country and also some famous non-local ones that are legally compliant to operate in my country and goodness it was a clusterfuck of darkpatterns and nightmare of steps and waits and locks and what not. I finally just created a temp card on my banking app with tiny credit spend limits and got done with it.We attack the wrrong problems. Like "make it decentralised"! The thing is the decentralised immediately becomes centralised for any meaningful usage and often much worse and slower and in some cases costlier. Imho, we should rather work for "make them accountable" and the accountability should be decentralised to different countries and eventually to people. But then this happens via Govts and even the ones that are actually elected by people don't like to give such powers into the hands of the people and lose contorl.
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  p4bl0
  I really hope VeriSign will lose this battle, it will serve as a lesson to this awful company. VerSign is vampirizing the internet. They hold a very important power on the whole infrastructure and they are the opposite of a good steward. The third-level .name fiasco [1] in itself should have led the ICANN to stop working with VeriSign and give their TLD management to other actors, ideally non-profit structures. Instead of that the ICANN let them go with it based on the flat out lies VeriSign wrote in their request, and denied requests for reconsideration based on the same lies. So maybe this class-action in justice is the only way to get through to VeriShit.[1] https://p4bl0.net/post/2026/10/VeriSign-is-VeriShit
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  jimbobimbo
  I just renewed domain name I own for maybe 20+ years, for $23/yr. This is nuts.
• paltonder
  Cumulative inflation in the US since 2021 has been around 25%? 30% if counting since 2020.
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  aliasxneo
  I've always hypothesized this was going on. It'll be interesting to see the results.
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  tamimio
  The internet needs an independent tld that’s not controlled by any entity, I see a lot of people over selling self hosting as the ultimate freedom, and while it’s great and better than relying in saas, you are still under the mercy of some entity and have a single point of failure in your setup. And before someone chimes in, onion aren’t practical.
• TZubiri
  seems commensurate with inflationfees have a PoW/PoS function, too cheap a fee will cause spam and squatting.let’s be real, 10$/yr is less than 1$/month, .com domains are cheap
• linncharm
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• Kwpolska
  Great, I'm going to get a check for $0.01! Totally worth the millions the lawyers will get.