I think we should make some new TLDs that come with some validation guarantees. Ie john-doe.nation.citizen is always a person who has an Id with the same “John Doe” issued by some government. The registrar is responsible for validating that. Once issues the domain is never revoked- it’s yours forever, even after death. Maybe you subscribe to something for extra features, but the core identity can’t be recycled.
People don’t always want really strong ID like that though. So make other TLDs for other categories and give them different validation rules. Like .human could have some kind of biometric ID but no name. .blob could be a free for all, whatever.
But who are those for? I mean, I get what you're saying I just don't think it solves the issue. Sure,I could sign up for JoeRogan.biz and start posting using that handle, but I would also have to pay to hide the whois information.
All government agencies would have a verified .gov domain.
States have access to .gov domains
hell, My local town has a .gov domain.
States have access to domains like ca.us, schools in states have access to k12.ca.us domains.
I guess States could offer domains like, person.county.town.state.us but what a mouthful. Or maybe person.citizen.state.us but doesn't seem ideal either.
I guess you could have a verified TLD so you can have individual domains like johndoe.verified... but it takes away from the domain being linked back to my website. Sure I could set up a redirect but boy that's starting to get complicated.
I think domains are a fine barrier for entry for vanity handles. Current domain registers could offer their own verification services where they can include the verification in the whois information.
If Joerogan.biz doesn't come back with some kind of verification string inside then it's not Joe's domain. That string could be a pubkey and services could allow for either encrypted posting or including an encrypted string that verifys against the domains whois information.
Or that pubkey could be stored as a txt record in the domain.
You do realize that most names are far from unique, right? So what if someone can show that they own john-doe.nation.citizen - you still have no idea if that's the right John Doe. Wanting this identy to persist after death only means there will be even more collisions.
Why would you want your real identity tied to online persona? That doesn’t make a ton of sense.
That kind of thing is sometimes suggested as a solution to reduce online disagreements, but in fact just escalate spitballings to murders and gang wars. Not great, in my opinion.
I think we should make some new TLDs that come with some validation guarantees. Ie john-doe.nation.citizen is always a person who has an Id with the same “John Doe” issued by some government. The registrar is responsible for validating that. Once issues the domain is never revoked- it’s yours forever, even after death. Maybe you subscribe to something for extra features, but the core identity can’t be recycled.
People don’t always want really strong ID like that though. So make other TLDs for other categories and give them different validation rules. Like .human could have some kind of biometric ID but no name. .blob could be a free for all, whatever.