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  • Why can't we pay ICANN directly for a domain?

    From groovee@cyberdude.com@21:1/5 to All on Sat Dec 26 09:02:17 2020
    ...why do we have to go through "registrars"?

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  • From Grant Taylor@21:1/5 to gro...@cyberdude.com on Sun Dec 27 19:02:15 2020
    On 12/26/20 10:02 AM, gro...@cyberdude.com wrote:
    ...why do we have to go through "registrars"?

    My personal speculations, scalability, that's not how things are
    designed (partially because of scalability, and ... we sort of can if we
    are willing to become a registrar.



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