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[gunian]

what does neofeudal mean in this context?

[pram → gunian]

It's how Urbit was designed, for example. The gentry owns all the primary namespaces, and the peasants pay rent to use their lairds fief.

[jazzyjackson → pram]

Is it all that different than DNS, in that top level domains are owned by a certain 'gentry' and everyone else pays rent?

You don't have to pay for namespace in urbit btw only if you want a permanent handle (and when you buy a planet or whatever its yours, you don't pay monthly for it, but yes you buy it from someone who was granted ownership by king curtis)

[pram → jazzyjackson]

Certainly not different in practice, and it’s also bad.

Yet ARPANET wasn’t originally designed to have a bunch of parasitic registrars collecting rent, so thats something worth considering.