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No you can't, unless you're a registry or can convince one to lease you a domain-name for an unlimited amount of time. In practice you rent a domain name annua
by jeffbr13 11y ago
No you can't, unless you're a registry or can convince one to lease you a domain-name for an unlimited amount of time.
In practice you rent a domain name annually, and they get put back in the rental pool not long after the renter stops renewing their lease. Domain-names pointing to content are redistributed all the time when companies go bust or webmasters forget to renew.
- Twisell 11y agoIf the webmaster forget to renew how exactly do you think a permanent link pointing to the dead website might help? It's up to webmasters to enforce consistent permalink in their website, no one else can do it better, end of story. Web archive will be of great historical value for futur researchers, but backward compatibility of any service or software rely on developers, not a third party.