Very early in the commercial registrar era, some registrars priced domains in harmony with their costs: no teaser marketing, just discounts on buying multiple future years at once. Even after everyone stopped giving out-year discounts explicitly, the fact of inflation in upstream fees made it wise for legitimate domain holders to buy many years in advance.
I am close to wanting a return to the InterNIC model. DNS Marxism.
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America250, the nonprofit organizing the US Semiquincentennial celebration, says it received sponsorship commitments from Oracle, Amazon, Coinbase, and Palantir (Meridith McGraw/Wall Street Journal)
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I just ran across a video with a Spanish title on YouTube, and I was surprised to see that the audio was in English. I thought the title got translated from English to Spanish or something like that.
It was narrated with a very monotone and boring AI voice. Then I noticed a "version with automatic dub" tag under the title and I checked the settings.
There were two audio tracks. I switched to the Spanish one... and holy fuck. It went from a super monotone AI English voice to the origina…
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“Bray Air Display has dropped US defence and aerospace manufacturer Lockheed Martin as a sponsor for this year’s event over the company’s supply of arms support to Israel in the Gaza war.”
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