[ih] rDNS, was The Decline and Fall of Internet Email?

[John R. Levine]

> On 2/14/2024 8:37 AM, John Levine via Internet-history wrote:
>> You can get a perfectly good VPS for $5 or $10/mo with a static IP and
>> rDNS from many hosting providers. That's the reasonable approach now.
>
> That's the /available/ approach now.
>
> However it is a markedly higher barrier than exists for getting a domain 
> name.
>
> As global Internet policies go, it serves to reduce individual opportunities 
> for innovation, at the least.

I dunno, a domain name is maybe $15/yr, a VPS starts at $55/yr and you can 
do a lot more with a VPS than with a domain name.

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