[governance] importance of having your own domain name

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

If portability of email address is all the utility you see, there are any number of free subdomain providers that let you point your MX anywhere you please (eg: dynamic dns services)

And not all domains are $10.  Domains being a commodity, more than one registrar periodically runs sales where they sell you domain names (like an indian registrar was offering .in domain names for 99 rupees a year - which is $1.66

--srs (iPad)

On 29-Jul-2013, at 18:47, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch> wrote:

> Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh at hserus.net> wrote:
> 
>> Now, if someone is in poverty and needs access to ICT, what is the
>> incremental value provided to him or her by a domain name?
> 
> I don't claim to know a lot about this kind of situation. I try
> to imagine the situation of someone whose Internet use might be
> primarily by means of an email address of their own, accessed perhaps
> through a cheap cell phone or in some way that does not actually
> presuppose ownership of any communication device (for example through a
> friend's cell phone, or through a public telecentre of some kind, etc.)
> 
> If we had a situation in which when you get your first email address,
> you automatically get a domain name of your own to go along with it at
> no extra charge, the poor person will be able to change email service
> providers without the email address actually changing.
> 
> I think that is a very significant benefit if for example the
> service quality of an email service provider deteriorates, or the price
> is hiked.
> 
> Greetings,
> Norbert
> 
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