You’re renting it from the domain computer system registry and they have full control over what takes place with your domain name. You might have discovered, I said traditional domain name because a business’s working on a brand-new type of domain name that you can own outright. – So Unstoppable Domains builds domain names on blockchains and this is different than a standard domain because the domain name is kept by you, the user inside of your cryptocurrency wallet.
They need to go and get your private key, which is on your device, like your phone or your computer or whatever. – Today, when you go to buy a domain name you do not actually own it. You’re renting it from a domain registrar like Namecheap and they’re renting it at wholesale pricing from the domain windows registry. For.com domains that’s Verisign. Verisign holds the keys to every single.com domain. Which suggests they have the power to take a domain name at any given time. Now, this is technically very unusual, but it is possible. And it raises a rising issue with our web, control. Brad calls this the class structure of a domain name system. – We’re a windows registry comparable to like a Verisign. The class structure is extremely different since as soon as we’ve offered you a domain there’s absolutely nothing that we can do. If it’s a.com domain you’re trusting the registry not to change rates or take the domain far from you in the future. Our domain are one-time costs, so you never have to worry about it. Once you purchase a domain it’s more like purchasing a football from us. Like there’s absolutely nothing we can do. We can’t update or edit or take the football away from you once you have it. In the standard world, there’s a lot of these resellers. And so GoDaddy is a reseller for example of.com domains. We’re mostly selling our own domains at unstoppabledomains.com right now. There are a couple of others that you can purchase them. You can go to MyEtherWallet, for instance, and you can buy them. Yeah, I believe that’s something that’s going to develop. In terms of us starting, it was a little much easier for us to type of handle the whole user experience and construct all these special tools.
However if you were to like, you understand imagine what things are going to be like in five to 10 years. Yeah, there ought to be lots of various sellers and resellers and things like that. – Obviously a brand-new kind of domain implies that you can’t register.com,. co,. net or any of the basic TLDs you’re used to seeing. Now Unstoppable Domains is starting with.crypto. Not a TLD you ‘d consider being an ideal suitable for your blog or service however we might see some generic TLDs being used in the future. In the meantime, Unstoppable Domains is dealing with crypto enthusiasts. It’s a totally different domain system, suggesting you can’t type craylor.crypto into your internet browser and load it or can you? See these crypto domains are NFT products. You have actually probably seen this term appear all over just recently. Non-fungible tokens are systems of data on a journal, that is the blockchain and they represent a special digital item.
In this case, a domain. Now I’m not claiming to understand all the technical specifics of this brand-new domain name system. To be sincere, I still struggle with some of the concepts of cryptocurrency, and I’m not a specialist in this area. Today we’re not focusing as much on the technical side of NFT domains however more on what it suggests for the future of the internet. The most significant traffic jam is that web browsers Google Chrome, Safari, and Microsoft Edge have actually not yet implemented support for NFT domains. Unstoppable Domains has an option for this, thanks to Cloudflare adding support for their domains.