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> Anyone can relatively easily become a domain registrar. Relatively easily? It isn't exactly a cheap venture: e.g. $4k+ per year to become an ICANN registrar.

> Anyone can relatively easily become a domain registrar. Relatively easily? It isn't exactly a cheap venture: e.g. $4k+ per year to become an ICANN registrar. I think people shouldn't have to pay that much to exercise their free speech. > It seems strange that someone would expect a registrar to defend them for the couple of dollars per year you generally pay. I think that unless a registrar is legally compelled to unregister your domain name, they shouldn't take it upon themselves to unregister your domain name just because other people are offended by what you put on the web server that your domain name resolves to.

ryanlol 9y ago
>Relatively easily? It isn't exactly a cheap venture: e.g. $4k+ per year to become an ICANN registrar. I'd say that's relatively easy yeah, perhaps a bit much for individuals but in the end not everyone needs to be a registrar. This is still accessible enough that rather small groups of people can set up a domain registrar to serve their own needs. >I think that unless a registrar is legally compelled to unregister your domain name, they shouldn't take it upon themselves to unregister your domain name just because other people are offended by what you put on the web server that your domain name resolves to. Oh, absolutely. And that's not what's happening here, registrars are simply forcing Daily Stormer to transfer elsewhere. They're not just deleting the domain.