I don’t mean interacting directly with ICANN. I mean directly interacting with registries, like Verisign.

They control the .com top level domain. They do not interact with consumers, and require you to use a third-layer of registrars to interface with them.

ICANN shouldn’t get into the direct-to-consumer business, that is true and not the issue I am speaking about.

If you want someone else’s servers to replicate a piece of information for you, and you want them to take responsibility for administrative issues like figuring out whether you still want it next year or what to do if you’re doing something illegal

I would like none of these services. I would simply like my domain name to be mapped to my server’s IP. I don’t want to have to pay a registrar, I would like to submit my domains to registers directly. There is a business layer of middle-men who do not need to exist.

Yeah kinda, my coworkers talk to ChatGPT like it actually knows stuff and use it to fix their broken terraform code.

It takes them a week or longer to get simple tickets done like this. One dude asked for my help last week, we actually LOOKED at the error codes and fixed his shit in about 15 minutes. Got his clusters up within an hour. Normally a week long ticket – crunched out in 60 minutes by hand.

It feels ridiculous because it’s primarily senior tech bro engineer types who fumble their work with this awful tool.