Since we're on about distribution, I converted a nodejs application to Crystal. The docker containers were 1GB vs 20MB.

I've never written a line of ruby in my life. For me, Crystal is an easier and asthetically prettier alternative to rust. It's syntax and type system are superior to golang. It doesn't use a giant VM.

> And the people who might crow about "security" - my device, my rules. I can block it on the network if I want.

We've entered a sad dystopia when the manufacturer is the leading security threat to the integrity of my personal devices.

But they paid for the $4,000 treadmill, not expecting it to magically become the $400 treadmill.

I typically suggest something like your first 25 domains are exempt, registered businesses also get some reasonable amount. Past that there should be a relatively hefty squatting fee. Maybe additional exemptions can be applied for.

Who is going to monitor this? How do you enforce this globally? What about defensive registrations? I know some companies register thousands of typos, spend millions protecting their brand. Is it on a per TLD basis? It would have to be since different TLDs have their own rules, especially ccTLDs which are governed by their own countries. How do you prevent the oversight organization from being captured by vested interests or IP lobby?

There are so many details which cause problems with these 'simple' solutions which once you start digging, you end up having to compromise a lot and end up with an equally, if not more, shitty solution.

My first thought, while I don't know the exact rights of the parties involved, they should have filed a complaint with ICANN regardless.

Was it {firstname}{lastname}.gtld or only one of those?

It was just my last name. So in a way surprising it wasn't classified as premium to begin with. But the fact such a concept exists at all, and the goalposts can move at any time, is the troubling part.

I do have a complaint about relatively new TLDs. Did you know .forum domains are $500 to $2000 per year?

We live in a world where everybody is complaining about censorship and nazis, but one of the best new TLDs for an independent forum is prices out 99% of the market!

Of course, there are plenty of TLDs in the $5-$20 range, which are great, but this will cause cheap TLDs to become crowded and .forum will be a ghost town.

Forums generally don't make money. Any forum making money, probably isn't making enough to budget $500 extra in another domain. Any company that would say "wow, $2000/year is acceptable" would already have something like {forum,community}.acme.com.

Is it the best TLD for in independent forum? It could be completely irrational on my part but I'd be hesitant to click a search result that would bring me to a .forum domain.

Well, to be fair, censorship and fascism are worse things than extortionate domain name prices. Though both are bad.

While true, a free and open web is generally desirable, and we'd like to keep the barriers of entry for federation to a minimum. If someone was ready to start mycool.forum, but doesn't have $500/yr to start a website, they must now wade through a garbage pile of "minimum $2,000 bid" squatted domains, weird TLDs that could declare your domain premium and charge $400,000/yr at any time, maybe even if the only thing "premium" about the name is that your website got popular, or buy a domain like themycoolforum50.com.

This might be only one managable issue, but these things add up, and the more they add up, the more facebook becomes the only website people use.

Agreed, that's why I never use or recommend any else use any of the domains run by private operators, just asking for troubles like the above. The attempted sale of org was scary.

Which is all very unfortunate because some of those TLDs are quite nice, like .forum. What a mess we've gotten ourselves into.

Should have been kept as a public service, but no putting the genie back in the bottle now. Only way out of this mess is a distributed system, but I can't imagine what that would like without a massive proliferation of competing services.

This is awesome, I'll probably try it out soon.

My primary use case is that I don't want my end user(s) to know the IP address of my core application.

But, the option to pay someone other than AWS/GoogleCloud and then have to write my own lambdas is also a plus.

Something similar, but for "fetch metadata on this URL" (tags, description, title, etc), version 2 of that being support for when the end target is an SPA, or also a "take a screenshot of this URL" would also be nice.

This is serendipity but I just published a medium article on how we are handling meta data for a SPA. Take a read @ https://link.medium.com/FecZ64OJ9gb

Happy to discuss more if you want.

we have an internet gateway in front of our push infrastructure, this way we always end up with the same IPs address even if the pool of workers is dynamic

This is pretty cool. Is it opensource? What stack is it built with?

Ruby on Rails, Bootstrap. Plans for open source in future :)