Dave Lane 🇳🇿
The status quo, where many (most?) people have a primary digital identity (their email) which carries a corporate brand. Once they're established (often without any forethought), people are loath to change them. They then have to put up with whatever crap that corporate dishes out.
We need an easy way for people (e.g. families) to manage their own identity and communications, like email addresses. I think everyone should have their own domain name & email that uses that domain name.
Dave Lane 🇳🇿
With their own domain, they'll never again have to 'update their email address' with correspondents. From then on, those people can then delegate that domain to any commodity email service provider - or provide their own - and change provider at their whim.
For people in Aotearoa NZ, it's the email analogue to the 'number portability' that we now enjoy for phone numbers here. (Thanks to Hayden Glass for getting that over the line here!)
ByronCinNZ
@lightweight The question is, is charging rent on ones identity the best and most ethical method of cost recovery?
Dave Lane 🇳🇿
@ByronCinNZ yes, that's true, although the infrastructure required to keep it current and authoritative does carry ongoing costs. And I think there's a justification for making it require active confirmation of continued interest...
ByronCinNZ
@lightweight It would also be nice to avoid annual payments for renewal of such domain names for email and other uses. Such renewal charges amount to extortion in that you pay the provider not to take down your domain. Leaning it in place costs them nothing and requires no effort, right.
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