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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

#81
post #7

What does "After eth.link was renewed, GoDaddy decided to ‘re-expire’ the domain" mean?

Registrars are just pass through to ICANN to some extent.

So they began reporting it as expired after their client retroactively failed some heuristic that they previously let the client pass.

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

#82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 a…

But...we still transact with China....?

The mental gymnastics required for holding both of these opinions is...something.

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

#83
post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"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.

You forgot switching accounts before replying to the same parent the second time. LOL.

I replied to two different comments or at least thats what I thought I was doing.

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

#84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think with web3 naming services (like ENS), regular people can actually own domains, since there is no service provider besides the blockchain

> no service provider Yes, there is, its this guy, and he is in prison now and can't do it anymore. This is the problem.

You don't need gateways like eth.link to access web3 websites, you can access them directly using a web3 compatible browser

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

#85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's not a grounded argument.

What in the world are you talking about? That's the entire point of blockchains, to have immutable records. And short of forking the blockchain or breaking the underlying encryption, there's literally no way to transfer a DNS record (in a world using DNS built on top of a blockchain) without the private key.

> what in the world are you talking about

rebuking the implicit, "ergo this method is bad" part of your post, given its context. more specifically, the idea that its worse than current methods with DNS and X.509

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

#86

If it's so important, why doesn't someone just pay the fee. Anyone with an interest.

Because unlike other registrars, GoDaddy only allows the domain registrant/owner to pay for the renewal.

That sounds harsh on GoDaddy's side. I wonder why they would do that? Usually, changes like this get implemented because of a big problem in the past.
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