this post was submitted on 25 May 2024
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How is this different from https://xmr.id/ ? Which has been around a while. I still don't quite understand paying for something you can set yourself.
Main functionality is same, both provides you OpenAlias. As my website is new, more aliases are available to register. Also it's cheaper. Apart from OpenAlias, I plan to introduce some features for subdomain.
This one is technically not true until you add Punycode support - and only if you manage to remain below XMR.ID's user count by that time :D
(Without Punycode, staying RFC-compliant, and applying XMR.IST's restriction of 30-characters max, we could provide roughly a count of
30^37-1-<amount of users>
, but even if we had a 10-chars limit, the number would still be unfathomable.)Welcome to the space - it feels less lonely now!
My bad, I meant more plain words are unclaimed/available for register. It's more likely name@xmr.id registered as you were operating for years, if someone specifically want to get their name as alias, it could be useful for them. Emoji support was something I plan for the future, I'll think about punycode. I'm not sure people would like to use non ascii characters (beside emojis) though.
Curiously, most ended up preferring a less readable XMR ID, leaving many common and given names available.
Maybe this is because nowadays we tend to assume the good ones online to be taken - so it's actually a great idea that you point that out! Let's see how it affects the trend.