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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 mccorrinall »

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…

Quite a lot of jail time for what basically hosting a crypto party is.

What’s next? Sending everyone to jail who published articles online on how to trade crypto?

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

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Post by GoOnThenDoTell »

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.

What would incentivise the creation/migration/maintenance of such a system?

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Post by HideousKojima »

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.

Then certain domains would become impossible to change as soon as someone loses their keys or dies etc.

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Post by Canada »

wombat-man wrote: post #16
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.

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.

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Post by smoldesu »

csdvrx wrote: post #5
smoldesu wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is no problem to 'fix'. The people who paid for eth.link domains do not own them, so GoDaddy has zero obligation to even acknowledge their existence. Hell, they're lucky they even got a statement at all, if I was them I'd just start selling off the domains slowly while I watch Twitter melt down.

> 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!

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Post by bawolff »

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...

Its certainly not their responsibility to fix the stupidity of others

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

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Post by LewisVerstappen »

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…

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 US government is too incompetent to properly administer their prisons.

The judge refused to send him to a lower-security prison (this guy is clearly not a physical security threat) because allowing him to avoid gang-conflict would "not be enough punishment".

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

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Post by charcircuit »

GoOnThenDoTell wrote: post #22
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.

What would incentivise the creation/migration/maintenance of such a system?

Having a name system improves the UX of a bunch of products. Products want to provide the best UX so they would be willing to pay for it as without it their product will be worse.

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

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Post by charcircuit »

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.
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