On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 1:41 AM, Bjarni Rúnar Einarsson <b...@pagekite.net> wrote: > To make this e-mail not a complete waste: random useful thing: > badger.com provide an API for registering domains. Others may as well > (gandi.net?). This means if someone writes the software, then buying > a domain could be handled entirely within the UI of the box itself.
that would be amazingly awesome actually. IndieWeb in a box! it will also feel nice to really have your own website. and we can add a few basic fedsocweb features. previously i was thinking of subdomains because they don't cost money to renew. but there are two advantages of proper domain names: - the user directly deals with the domain name registrar. they can even transfer to another registrar without interrupting anything. it's as decentralized as we can make it. - what if we also automate startssl as Michael Rogers suggested? startssl's identity check they do now relies on an email conversation with a supposed human agent (i always wonder if i'm talking with a bot during those), but the fact that a physical object was purchased and shipped can effectively work to establish legitimacy of the user (buying the plugserver is like resolving a captcha, it proves that you are human). as Bjarni and i also already discussed, maybe we need to reach out to startssl and find out if they could cooperate to make this really work. wouldn't that be amazing? each freedombox coming with a real https-enabled domain, which makes you a first-class citizen on the (social) web. if we can automate the two registration steps (DNR and SSL), then it could be feasible. if people think this could work then i'll contact startssl about it, and see what they say. they might say no, for reasons we can't predict, but i think it's worth a try. cheers, Michiel _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list Freedombox-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
