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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 smoldesu »

andreilys wrote: post #34
smoldesu wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Someone else can pay for the domain, they just have to wait for it to lapse first. This seems perfectly fine to me, and if the original owner agreed to the GoDaddy TOS then I see no reason why they should make a magical fairy dust exception for this case.

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

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Post by Macha »

gchamonlive wrote: post #13

Giving a totally new dimension to "bus factor". No organization should tie their infrastructure maintenance to individuals, but processes are really hard to consolidate and automate and knowledge is not easily shared either. Curious as to how other people approach reducing their bus factor.

Not even the first such high profile case (see also resierfs)

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

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Post by lizardactivist »

EasyDNS CEO Mark Jeftovic had previously struck a deal to renew the domain address for another year before the domain provider allegedly decided to stop honoring the deal “suddenly” and “without notice.”

Another one in the great pile of reasons to avoid GoDaddy and other US American domain name services -- you don't own your domain name, you're just an authorized user as long as the US government allows it.

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

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Post by blueflow »

lizardactivist wrote: post #44

EasyDNS CEO Mark Jeftovic had previously struck a deal to renew the domain address for another year before the domain provider allegedly decided to stop honoring the deal “suddenly” and “without notice.” Another one in the great pile of reasons to avoid GoDaddy and other US American domain name services -- you don't own your domain name, you're just an authorized user as long as the US government allows it.

> you don't own your domain name

You never do, authority over a DNS zone is a service that is provided to you.

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

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Post by m4jor »

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 for attending a tech conference in North Korea."

Yeah, nah. That's not what happened.

He deserves to be in prison. He is so smart yet so stupid at the same time.

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

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Post by zeroclip »

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.

ENS already mostly has this. depositcontract.eth expires in the year 2150 and cannot be modified or transferred until that point. Infinite expiry doesn’t really make sense.

https://app.ens.domains/name/depositcontract.eth/details

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

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Post by m4jor »

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?

Yes and yes. With being the #1 super power country in the world, a lot of power comes with that.

Griffith could have avoided ever being in prison had he not ignored the US government, lied to FBI agents, and then attempted to assist NK in evading sanctions.

He thought he was so smart yet he was so dumb.

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

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Post by dsimmons »

lizardactivist wrote: post #44

EasyDNS CEO Mark Jeftovic had previously struck a deal to renew the domain address for another year before the domain provider allegedly decided to stop honoring the deal “suddenly” and “without notice.” Another one in the great pile of reasons to avoid GoDaddy and other US American domain name services -- you don't own your domain name, you're just an authorized user as long as the US government allows it.

This.

Regardless of how you feel about "web3", I think most people (especially in technology) should see this as a problem and aspire to a brighter future where governments/corporations aren't making decisions about what people can and can't see on the web, especially when they're inherently biased.

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