not a utility, was Parler

Mon Jan 11 20:31:14 UTC 2021

----- On Jan 11, 2021, at 4:46 AM, Karl Auer kauer at biplane.com.au wrote:

Hi,

> "The DNS is a natural monopoly. People want one resolver so they can
> connect with all their 'sites'. No one is going to use several
> nameservers for domain name resolution. They want one."
> 
> Nah. The DNS is a natural distributed database, with authoritative data
> held by those with the most interest in its accuracy. But unlike DNS
> data, there is money in collecting all the facebooky things - IF you
> are allowed to sell them. Stop that, and Facebook is a natural
> distributed database too.

There is also money being made in DNS. A lot of money is being made in
DNS. 

According to Verisign(1) Q3 of 2020 closed with 370.7 million new 
registrations. At an average of $15 per domain(2), that equals a market
of $5.5 billion dollars. Now, that's of course pocket change compared
to Facebook's $21.4 billion Q3 revenue(3), but still.

And that's without all those alt-root con schemes.

Thanks,

Sabri

(1) https://www.verisign.com/en_US/domain-names/dnib/index.xhtml
(2) https://www.websitebuilderexpert.com/building-websites/domain-name-cost/
(3) https://investor.fb.com/investor-events/event-details/2020/Facebook-Q3-2020-Earnings/default.aspx