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Hi, straw man.
That's exactly what's going to happen.
Probably even more TLDs but excluding .name
That's a great idea. We should form an organization "Off the Internet" to promote and support such bureaucratic ideas, which eliminate privacy online and make it as hard as possible to use services that have been around since the dawn of the web.
At this point I am convinced that the only way to save the internet is to kill it. We have all the technology we need, easily (and cheaply) accessible, to build a World-Wide-Mesh network with built-in privacy, fully distributed service architecture and neutrality. Yet, we can't. The reason we can't is because nobody is on board. Nobody is on board because everybody can still "kind of" use the existing infrastructure.
Basically for a New Internet to be successful it needs loads of people. And for loads of people to join the New Internet, it needs to be successful. It is a chicken and egg problem. The only way forward is for the Old Internet to become completely unusable so more people start looking for an alternative, thus bootstrapping the New Internet.
I find that most of the tech community instead tries to resist the attempts of governments and corporations to eliminate our freedom and privacy. We should be the leaders in educating the masses that the current Internet is fundamentally broken. It relies on organizations such as ICANN, to control the name system. This is a centralized approach prone to abuse. The TCP/IP system itself does not help to keep us safe and secure either. These technologies were built in different times. We should fully support all attempts to pass rules and regulations that reveal the weaknesses of the current infrastructure, while demonstrating the advantages of the alternative.
ICANN is digging his own grave, do that and then public dns providers will just skip ICANN. Soon domain like .bit will get all over the world and then it will get a lot harder to find criminals.
So thank you ICANN.
Do you actually honestly believe this?
I believe it. As it becomes harder and harder to offer services on the public internet (requirements to send copies of ID, publicly available registry with full personal details, useless fees, etc.) people will be more enticed to offer their service under .onion or .bit . As more services become available exclusively on Tor and/or under .bit, people will start enabling their computers for access to these services. Just like people started using BitTorrent.
@elwebmaster I think that ICANN basically forcing more people to use fake (purchased) IDs to people who don't want share their real identity.
Regarding .bit or .onion it's not that easy to access for newbies.
You will be surprised how fast people learn.
As for the new internet with with privacy built-in, it exists, it is called freenet. It gets faster and faster, but it is still slow. It also requires quite a lot of knowledge and there are no portals to access it over the open web, but the fundamentals are there.
The Internet was also not easy to access back in the 90s. As long as there is content/services that people want to access, they will find a way. As long as ICANN and other organizations in charge of the centralized Internet architecture make it harder and harder for people to share content / provide services on the Internet, people will move their offerings to alternative decentralized architectures. It is the snowball effect.
I'm also 14 and can confirm this is deep.