Re: [44net] An anniversary of a sort - 36 years

Personally, I've always wondered how we missed the boat on getting a top-level domain name in the early days of DNS. Getting our own TLD makes a lot of sense since our call signs are already a globally unique namespace we could use with it. DNS is only meant to make addresses easier to remember, but by standardizing our namespace in a TLD, we would also have the advantage of a global directory that makes the services you want to make public easily discoverable. I can see such a thing becoming very valuable to our community in the future as amateur radio continues to merge with the digital world. If we had setup a registry to handle it, that technical advantage may have granted us a TLD in the early days. But now that they've changed the rules for TLDs, it would almost certainly require more resources than a group of hams could manage. However, if the concept is valuable enough to us, it may be worth taking advantage of an opportunity to trade a small part of our unused IPv4 space for it. Cory Johnson, NQ1E HamWAN Puget Sound