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Ask HN: I purchased a domain and now the registry wants to take it back

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Re: Ask HN: I purchased a domain and now the registry wants to take it back

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Post by walrus01 »

the entire existence of the .io registry and the people running it, presently making money from it are highly suspicious, it's supposed to be for the benefit and use of the people who lived in what's now called the "british indian ocean territory" in the general area of diego garcia.

this is a place from which the natives were evicted by force.

I somehow doubt they're getting any financial benefit from it.

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

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

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

as a reminder, ethos capital are the amazing people who tried to "buy" .org a while back

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

If this doesn't fit the economics textbook definition of Rent Seeking, I don't know what does.

Re: Ask HN: I purchased a domain and now the registry wants to take it back

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Post by convolvatron »

bitxbitxbitcoin wrote: post #4

This is part and parcel of participating in the centralized domain name system.

this is part and parcel of having the ICANN model with competition between for-profit registries. Jon Postel wouldn't have been so mean.

Re: Ask HN: I purchased a domain and now the registry wants to take it back

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Post by 1cvmask »

walrus01 wrote: post #21

the entire existence of the .io registry and the people running it, presently making money from it are highly suspicious, it's supposed to be for the benefit and use of the people who lived in what's now called the "british indian ocean territory" in the general area of diego garcia. this is a place from which the natives were evicted by force. I somehow doubt they're getting any financial benefit from it. https://en…

If the Chinese did this the press would write about the genocide in Diego Garcia etc....

The UN resolution (international norms???) and International Court of Justice (ICJ) is being violated by the UK and US:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-mauritius-un-idUS...

Re: Ask HN: I purchased a domain and now the registry wants to take it back

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Post by walrus01 »

1cvmask wrote: post #25
walrus01 wrote: post #21

the entire existence of the .io registry and the people running it, presently making money from it are highly suspicious, it's supposed to be for the benefit and use of the people who lived in what's now called the "british indian ocean territory" in the general area of diego garcia. this is a place from which the natives were evicted by force. I somehow doubt they're getting any financial benefit from it. https://en…

If the Chinese did this the press would write about the genocide in Diego Garcia etc.... The UN resolution (international norms???) and International Court of Justice (ICJ) is being violated by the UK and US: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-mauritius-un-idUS...

Perhaps it should be possible to condemn things like what happened to the Chagossians and what's presently ongoing with the Uyghur people simultaneously

Re: Ask HN: I purchased a domain and now the registry wants to take it back

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Post by jacquesm »

shalomfriss wrote: post #24

I've purchased domains from GoDaddy and they reclaimed them, claiming that they sold them to me in error and that they had already been purchased. This is for multiple domains, within minutes of their release by the way.

Don't use GoDaddy, ever.

Re: Ask HN: I purchased a domain and now the registry wants to take it back

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Post by igetspam »

I've had this happen during new TLD launches. I owned lap.top for about a day but so did a whole lot of people. I lost that race. You don't own a domain. You rent it and the registrar can take it back. They generally don't, outside of trademark issues, legal problems or race conditions but they can.

Re: Ask HN: I purchased a domain and now the registry wants to take it back

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Post by jedberg »

dreyfan wrote: post #18
swalsh wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Domains should be NFT's

Yeah, then when someone loses or has stolen the keys to that wallet, the domain is forever gone.

Like how when someone steals your car it's just gone forever?

There still exists a legal system in which the NFT could potentially recovered. Yes it's harder with easy cross border theft, but that just means we need better global treaties.

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