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> I wish municipality offered domains, for example: you move to St Louis you would get name.stlouis.mo.us this would give you the same agency online that a mail address gets you offline.

Australia kinda does this with their `.id.au` second level domains for 'Individuals (by real name or common alias)'

Not many folks use it or know about it.



> Australia kinda does this with their `.id.au`

Interesting, is there any links/documentation on this? Is it for every citizen or something?


https://www.auda.org.au/au-domain-names/domain-name-help/ida...

It costs more wholesale than a regular .com, requires handing over PII to a small company and isn't subject to the same price increase limits.

Obviously won't work for everyone but I bought <firstname><lastname>.com instead and its 50% cheaper per year than the equivalent .id.au which should have maybe a few dozen other people in Australia vying for it with first/last name and I assume no one else with my middle names included.


Croatia as well, you can get a firstName-lastName.from.hr domain for free.


eu.org does this too, and at no cost too.




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