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It's remarkably hard to actually "own" anything on the internet. The act of paying for something or not does not dictate what's your property - ASNs are leased, IPs are leased, domains are leased, connections are leased and you'll need to either pay or use someone else's to host something on the internet. The closest you could come is legacy IPv4 space and not rely on traditional infrastructure such as DNS. Most regi…
Just because a fee is due annually doesn't mean you don't "own" whatever it is that you "lease". In the real world, you still have to pay taxes and HOA fees on real estate property that you own; plus, have to put up (or finance) a huge deposit in order to "own" it. Same goes for any other large property like cars. You're talking about trademarks, but trademarks themselves often require renewal every 10 years, where y…
Can you say that about your Twitter handle? Do you have a legal right to keep using that Twitter account, and if Twitter tries to give the account to someone else, can you get an injunction preventing them from doing so? (Now, same question but for your FB, Instagram, email, domain name, etc etc.)