I know that I can simply make my own private certificate authority that only I and my family trust. But is there some public provider like letsencrypt that is in a free-er part of the world than the US?

    • NotEasyBeingGreen@slrpnk.net
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      I worked on the Yeti Project a while ago, which showed that an independent group of operators can run root servers.

      Managing the contents of the root zone was out of scope… we used the ICANN root.

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      8 hours ago

      There are authorityless blockchain-backed name registration services. In general, it is important whether you can localize a resource. If you can easily find it, the name doesn’t have to human-readable.

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        5 hours ago

        if its not human readable, how will people know its the place they want to go to? I don’t think bookmarked onionsites is a particularly good idea