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Web3 Domain Name Service Could Lose Web Address-Owner Who Can Renew Is in Prison

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Re: Web3 Domain Name Service Could Lose Web Address-Owner Who Can Renew Is in Prison

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Post by zamadatix »

smoldesu wrote: post #26
csdvrx wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> if I was them I'd just start selling off the domains slowly while I watch Twitter melt down. Why do something you know to be bad and will lead to many people being angry? Why not... be nice and helpful?

Because they're GoDaddy, not a crypto-charity. They run a business, nobody has any right to complain that they're not giving away their product free-of-charge. If they want their precious domain so badly then they can compete for it on the free market; that's the spirit of decentralization and deregulation, after all!

I don't see enough information in the article or GoDaddy statement saying the ask was to do it free of charge just they won't allow anyone else do the renewal.

As much as I dislike crypto-crap as the article points out ENS itself would handle this situation fine and GoDaddy reversing its position on this is pretty much the opposite of the argument for centralized services being better able to handle these scenarios.

Re: Web3 Domain Name Service Could Lose Web Address-Owner Who Can Renew Is in Prison

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

LewisVerstappen wrote: post #28
gregmac wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Basically" is doing a lot of work in that sentence: > In September, Griffith pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to violate international sanctions against North Korea. Griffith was arrested in November 2019 after giving a talk at a cryptocurrency conference in Pyongyang in April of that year. > “What you see here is an intentionality…and a desire to educate people on how to evade sanctions,” [U.S. District Ju…

It's so funny how people are so happy to jump in defense of the US regime. Are international sanctions laws just? Should the US government have the right to bar other countries from transacting financially with the world? > Griffith has been limited to two or less meals a day, usually peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, because gangs in MDC control the kitchens and the commissary Gangs control US prisons because the…

> Are international sanctions laws just? Should the US government have the right to bar other countries from transacting financially with the world?

North Korea happily transacts with China. It just can’t transact with us or with our friends. This makes sense given Pyongyang has credibly stated it would be happy to bomb us and our allies. If someone wants to work for our enemies, a few years in jail is–historically and compared to how other countries treat such people—quite light.

Re: Web3 Domain Name Service Could Lose Web Address-Owner Who Can Renew Is in Prison

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Post by scoopertrooper »

gregmac wrote: post #18
luciusdomitius wrote: post #9

It is really interesting why he is in prison. Basically for attending a tech conference in North Korea. Frankly, this reminds me of the Soviet times.

"Basically" is doing a lot of work in that sentence: > In September, Griffith pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to violate international sanctions against North Korea. Griffith was arrested in November 2019 after giving a talk at a cryptocurrency conference in Pyongyang in April of that year. > “What you see here is an intentionality…and a desire to educate people on how to evade sanctions,” [U.S. District Ju…

I found the image! Amazing.

https://cointelegraph.com/magazine/2022/04/12/bizarre-the-fb...

Re: Web3 Domain Name Service Could Lose Web Address-Owner Who Can Renew Is in Prison

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Post by andreilys »

smoldesu wrote: post #26
csdvrx wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> if I was them I'd just start selling off the domains slowly while I watch Twitter melt down. Why do something you know to be bad and will lead to many people being angry? Why not... be nice and helpful?

Because they're GoDaddy, not a crypto-charity. They run a business, nobody has any right to complain that they're not giving away their product free-of-charge. If they want their precious domain so badly then they can compete for it on the free market; that's the spirit of decentralization and deregulation, after all!

How does having someone else pay for the domain renewal imply charity?

Re: Web3 Domain Name Service Could Lose Web Address-Owner Who Can Renew Is in Prison

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Post by riffic »

radiojasper wrote: post #2

Hey thanks, GoDaddy for releasing a statement[0] instead of fixing the problem. They literally choose this over siding with the customer and their lawyer. [0] https://aboutus.godaddy.net/newsroom/company-news/news-detai...

seems like a reasonable statement, lol.

big corp isn't going to lose its icann accreditation over an intervention that breaks their policies.

Re: Web3 Domain Name Service Could Lose Web Address-Owner Who Can Renew Is in Prison

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Post by qeternity »

charcircuit wrote: post #30
Traubenfuchs wrote: post #10

"decentralized web3 nonsense crumbles the second there is some issue on the centralized web2 architecture its built on behind the scenes", more news at 11.

The web3 part didn't crumble. It's the web2 bridge that is crumbling.

Well, the web3 part is in jail so I'm not really sure that's accurate.

Re: Web3 Domain Name Service Could Lose Web Address-Owner Who Can Renew Is in Prison

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Post by riffic »

TekMol wrote: post #20

Will domains have to be renewed at all in the future? When you put a transaction on the Bitcoin blockchain, it will stay there forever. You don't have to renew it. Why not the same for domains? You put "mydomain > 111.222.333.444 signed: me, the mydomain owner" on a blockchain and as long as you do not put another signed message that overrides it, it points to 111.222.333.444 forever.

The future is what we've built upon in the past. Domain names are not going to change in any significant way because the DNS system won the test of time.

there's a concept I like to bring up here, the Lindy Effect, that shows that DNS because of its longevity will likely be around for decades or centuries to come.

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

Re: Web3 Domain Name Service Could Lose Web Address-Owner Who Can Renew Is in Prison

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Post by riffic »

luciusdomitius wrote: post #9

It is really interesting why he is in prison. Basically for attending a tech conference in North Korea. Frankly, this reminds me of the Soviet times.

You do realize the Korean War never officially ended (de jure), right?

Re: Web3 Domain Name Service Could Lose Web Address-Owner Who Can Renew Is in Prison

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Post by em-bee »

Canada wrote: post #12

I like to keep important domains paid up many years in advance. Some TLDs don't allow this. I wonder if .link is one of those.

i register all my domains and especially those that belong to a community or a company with a registrar that allows anyone to pay the renewal fee. like gandi does.

for a community that means that any member of the community can pay the fee, and for small communities this is a nice way to make an effortless donation.

for a company it means that any office assistant can manage the payments without needing administrative access.

Re: Web3 Domain Name Service Could Lose Web Address-Owner Who Can Renew Is in Prison

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Post by solarengineer »

Canada wrote: post #25
wombat-man wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

some registrars let you keep a balance, so even if you can't pay in advance, you can load up your account balance so instead of trying to bill your card it just deducts your balance. Idk why godaddy wouldn't have this so I assume he just didn't keep an account balance.

Yeah, I try to also do that, as the domains are so important to me that I want to front-load as many things that could fail as possible. This one domain I have only allows me to renew it when it's less than 60 days to expiry and it's not possible to auto-renew, which really sucks.

Have you explored shifting that domain to a Domain Registrar who _does_ allow you to auto-renew via a topped-up account that you maintain with them?
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