i-Names Pick Up Steam

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday December 6, 2004 @01:37AM from the reserve-your-name-now dept.

There's been coverage in LJ on the whole "Identity Commons idea. Basically, it's a domain registrar for your unique name - with them on sale already. ASN has published a whitepaper on the topic as well.

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Re:What about XNS names? by gl4ss · 2004-12-06 01:42 · Score: 5, Insightful

buzzword bingo.

anyways, maybe they sold lifetime subs to their previous thing.

now they sell "As a critical part of its mission Identity Commons is offering a time-limited opportunity for individuals to register a global i-name (opens new window) for 50 years for only $25 USD.".

so.. is it going to cost more after this limited time? with all the referral shit too it's starting to sound too much like a network marketing semi-scam - with "pay now, the product may be very good in the future! you can't afford to stay away!" attitude.

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Re:Poor site by gl4ss · 2004-12-06 02:15 · Score: 5, Insightful

/cynic mode on.

you know why it's wordy and techie? to get techies to jump in quick to register their own name(s). you're not supposed to stop and think for a second if that 25$ is a ripoff or not. the whole community 'feel'(non mega polished with flash) in it is just intended to hide what's underneath.

it's techy and named so 'commons' so that you wouldn't first think that it's a firm that's taking twenty five bucks for you to register a crappy name on it, with basically no real usage on anywhere at all!

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yet another flat namespace that won't scale by keithmoore · 2004-12-06 02:33 · Score: 5, Insightful

an unambiguous human-friendly name is an oxymoron.