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The main difference is that I don't own the subdomain, and should the organization decide to forgo the domain, my subdomain is also gone. On the other hand, if I buy a domain, my name is attached to it in the registry to denote that I am the "rightful" owner of the domain, and it is going to be way harder for me to lose access to it (I read a post on HN sometimes ago that some governmental cybersec task force can just terminate access to your domain if they deem you are using it for malicious intent, but otherwise you can only deliberately lose the domain)
This is just like a github.io subdomain. IME the only true free domain service is Freenom.
Also one issue that I neglected to raise is this can be very unstable. If some scammer/malware use your service (I know that you have a review process, but you still won't know for sure), Google SafeBrowse may mark your whole domain as harmful. I don't know if you have a contingency for this, but you need one in place.
> this is not free domain, this is free subdomain
A subdomain is a type of domain.
In terms of "string that I can type in the Browser address bar to go to a website", I agree with your definition.
That isn't a domain either. An address in there is a URL, a partial or complete one (it also recognizes search terms, but that's different).
It's actually really simple.
> In the Domain Name System (DNS) hierarchy, a subdomain is a domain that is a part of another (main) domain.
Having a subdomain be a type of domain is really important for speaking concisely about web security. If I say "what's the domain of the cookie?" and the answer can't be "news.ycombinator.com", that's suboptimal. At the same time for security it is also important to know who the registrar is, but for that there is the term TLD.
In the ownership context the definition differs. Please if you want to challenge my notion of "subdomain" please only challenge this definition only. You don't own a subdomain as strongly as owning a root-level domain, because in the first case the only attestation is on the database of obl.ong/github.io/etc while in second case your ownership is attested by the ICANN registry, which is how things has been working for the past 20/30 years.
Nope.
Or your can be me. For some convoluted reasons I had the contract email set to my company mail and the domain was paid for 10 years. I left the company in May and in September the registrar started to send reminders which were of course bounced.
Then around Christmas I realized something is wrong, tried to get the domain back but it was too late.
This was an unfortunate set of circumstances, all my fault, but "deliberate" is a bit too masochist :)
I also agree, "deliberate" is a bit too strongly worded.
So in order to lose the domain, there is just a very few modes of failure that has a 3rd party factor. In most case, the domain-owning entity is accountable for losing the access.
https://thenew.org/org-people/about-pir/policies/ngo-and-ong...
>The mission and purpose of the .NGO and .ONG top level domain (“TLDs”) is to serve the global Non-Governmental Organization (“NGO”) Community by supplying it with exclusive TLDs that will offer NGOs and associations of NGOs differentiated and verified online identities.
"The PIR simultaneously applied for the top-level domain .ong, which is a similarly recognisable initialism for "organisation non gouvernementale" in French, and equivalent terms in many other Romance languages such as Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Romanian." [1]
So similar to e.g. NATO and OTAN.
"Oblong" is kind of an awkward word though. Anyone want to set up a fork at .bi.ngo?
Dang, now I'm going to be thinking of .ngo and .ong domains all day...
k.ong - cool word, don't know what it would be for. Maybe the home of the mascot of the K language (I don't think K has a mascot from what I know but they should have one).
whats.wr.ong - find a therapist site.
Much harder to figure out any on '.ngo' I feel...
mo.ngo - the database.
flami.ngo, gri.ngo, li.ngo, ma.ngo, ri.ngo.
on the other side, how about str.ong?
A proper .com is only ~$8/year, quite a good deal — is free domains still a problem that needs to be solved?
> The use of sexualized language or imagery, and sexual attention or advances of any kind
No porn and probably more
> Publishing others' private information, such as a physical or email address, without their explicit permission
No saying the president of the united states lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
> Other conduct which could reasonably be considered inappropriate in a professional setting
No t-shirts and jeans.
> distributing or hosting any adult content, including but not limited to, pornographic images or videos
No porn again
> content which may be illegal under German or Scottish law
No youtube-dl allowed!
> This list is not comprehensive, and we reserve the right to revoke any subdomain at any time
So basically if you piss off the CEO he might wake up one day and boot you off. Say hello cloudflare.
Anyway, I doubt depending on a unknown project may qualify as "quality" for something as important as you domain name. Especially since having you own domain name can cost less than $10 per year, I don't really see the value in something like this (and I never want to live the Freenom debacle again).
We exist so people don't have to go to freenom when they want their own but free domain. I've used Freenom in the past, and they are the worst experience.
In terms of the vibe that something gives off, stuff is usually "cooler" when it seems like you didn't care that much. A random pubkey is as care-free as it gets.
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What did I miss?
Would prefer if they just accepted my randomly generated 64 character passwords, since I already use a password manager (KeePassXC).
There will be some way to authenticate to the password manager. On my iPad, it’s a fingerprint sensor. With Chrome on a Mac, I don’t know where it gets stored (keychain?), but it prompts for your Mac password. That’s not no password but it’s no additional password.
I think it's asking for the old yubikey, but neither the site nor firefox give me other option or a link about what to do.
Would prefer if they just accepted my randomly generated 64 character passwords, since I already use a password manager (KeePassXC).
Honestly unless you have a security key, or a mac I wouldn't bother right now. Going all in on Passkeys when a significant majority of devices don't fully support it yet is a bit silly.