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Domains? Where we’re going, we don’t need domains! Until the end of this year, the only way to have a secure web site is to have it accessible via a domain name. That, however, is changing. And the design of the Small Web will be changing along with it. IP addresses are about to make a comeback on the web in a big (ok, small) way, thanks to upcoming support for security certificates for IP addresses by Let’s Encrypt.
With the PSL hack, Domain can set up a Small Web site as a subdomain of small-web.org (using pre-warmed VPS servers) in roughly ten seconds. Along with this name change, and in keeping with the baby cat theme introduced with Kitten, I’ve decided to rename Place ( again) to Yarn. Reworking Catalyst to simplify the Small Web place setup flow even further now that domain names are no longer necessary.
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