DomIRC – An IRC network for all domain name owners and their communities

by Xenthys • 10 years ago

89 40 10 years ago

Xenthys5• 10 years ago

To clear that up a bit, you can register a channel like #domain.tld only if you control the DNS zone of the said domain, and you can't get op in a primary channel without registering it first.

zokier• 10 years ago

Well, that is definitely one way of approaching the lack of federation in IRC

Xenthys5• 10 years ago

Yeah. In fact, there is a lot of networks but they are made because people want to experiment and operate a server then they wonder what they could use it for. Here, well, we had a goal and IRC was a solution, as once you have your channel you just have to add an iframe on your website and tadam, a fully functioning live webchat with permissions! ;)

dijit3• 10 years ago

I think this is rather a novel way of approaching verification.

If someone has ops in a channel he or she must either be a webmaster or someone trusted by a webmaster.

Whether this is useful or not is sort of irrelevant, it's a fun exercise.

ShinyCyril• 10 years ago

Slightly off-topic, but IRC discussions don't come up too regularly.

What channels / networks are people hanging out in?

I mainly lurk on ##re and ##security on Freenode.

lowglow• 10 years ago

#techendo

dijit3• 10 years ago

irc.darkscience.net (6697/SSL):

#darkscience

#sysadmin

Freenode:

##infra-talk

I keep verrrrry clear of #reddit-sysadmin on freenode though.

corobo• 10 years ago

Why do you stay clear?

PeCaN• 10 years ago

#proglangdesign and #osdev are some of my favorites on Freenode, otherwise it's mostly language-related ones.

#dragonflybsd on efnet is probably my favorite technology-specific channel. Lots of interesting stuff happens there (and sage wisdom from Matt Dillon).

Iuz• 10 years ago

#startups on freenode is great.

jayflux• 10 years ago

Freenode:

#web

#startups (although not been in there for ages)

#go-nuts

Xenthys5• 10 years ago

Obviously I'm on DomIRC, but also on freenode like probably a lot of us.

I mainly hang in ##france, #bfnt, #botters, #codebottle and #freenode related channels, among a lot of others channels but the list is way too long ;)

paavokoya2• 10 years ago

Freenode is HEAVILY moderated and censored to the point of restricting basic free speech. Find a different place.

To the downvoters: you are doing exactly what I'm talking about

andrewguenther• 10 years ago

Lack of evidence is probably the reason you're getting downvoted.

bcook• 10 years ago

After using FreeNode for years, this is the first I've heard of censorship.

Can you cite some examples? (Downvotes are not censorship, btw.)

volatilitish• 10 years ago

Freenode is used by geeks to setup a channel in the same way old people still use AOL.

There are far better, less restrictive, more secure networks out there.

killwhitey• 10 years ago

Freenode #startups and #dn

kpcyrd• 10 years ago

Mostly on https://www.hackint.org/, it hosts a lot of ccc and freifunk related channels.

pvdebbe• 10 years ago

#emacs on Freenode is great, if one can handle the traffic. Great convos and greatest (IT/CS related) memes.

Bino• 10 years ago

If it only were controlled by a formal entity like the root zone owner it would be somewhat awesome, as this project or company may die out if not successfully enough...

Still an upvote

Xenthys5• 10 years ago

Well, it is controlled by a non-profit organization already funded by something else.

There are no profits created by this network, so even if it does not work well, we will not lose money.

About the organization itself, it has others activities maintaining it alive.

As the President of Blackfields Network, the parent organization of DomIRC, I swear we will maintain this network as long as we exist.

xj9• 10 years ago

That's the problem with federated systems: we (users) have to rely on the promises and whims of our system operators to have access.

I don't trust or distrust you, I wish I didn't have to decide.

micro_softy• 10 years ago

"Slack for everyone".

(After paying some registrar and ICANN gets its 13 cents or whatever.)

Pay to play DNS aside, this is really what the "web 2.0" should have been.

IMHO, an IRC channel has always been more functional than a "website".

It makes peer to peer easy.

na852• 10 years ago

If only the big networks weren't so change averse, we could have had a new RFC for IRC that included mobile/roaming-friendly protocols, which IMHO is the #1 thing holding IRC back in the current age.

Does my client really have to burn battery by sending a PONG back every half second or so? Can't we have seamless roaming without disconnects?

voltagex_• 10 years ago

http://ircv3.net/ - not sure if it fixes the PONG issue, though.

erlehmann_4• 10 years ago

XMPP works so well on mobile connections that I have been using IRC over XMPP almost exclusively for quite some time using a transport that maps any IRC channel to an XMPP MUC (#maemo on freenode is “maemo%irc.freenode.net@irc.netlab.cz”) and any IRC user to an XMPP user (nickserv on freenode is “nickserv!irc.freenode.net@irc.netlab.cz”). Even when the connection is gone for several minutes (like when using UMTS on a train), XMPP usually transmits all pending messages as soon as I am back online.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMPP

erlehmann_4• 10 years ago

Wouldn't the XMPP web client Kaiwa [1] be “Slack for everyone” ? I am using Slack at work and at least from the screenshots, it looks that Kaiwa is really similar.

[1] http://getkaiwa.com/

thinkxl• 10 years ago

##frontend on freenode, we are off-topic almost all the time.

Jaruzel• 10 years ago

I haven't used IRC aggressively in over 15 years. What's with the double hashes I now see on the front of channel names? Is one hash no longer enough?

mirages• 10 years ago

double hash means non official channel. Single hash means that the channel is administered by "official" staff member.

Example #debian would have operators that are really member of the debian project while ##debian is your old normal IRC channel on first serve basis

DomIRC – An IRC network for all domain name owners and their communities

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