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No way. This is awful. They cannot be allowed to do this. What do we have to do to stop this insanity? These companies don’t own the namespace. They are in char
by scarejunba 8y ago
No way. This is awful. They cannot be allowed to do this. What do we have to do to stop this insanity? These companies don’t own the namespace. They are in charge of delivering a service that resolves the namespace.
This is not at all correct. ICANN must not do this!
- thaumasiotes 8y ago> These companies don’t own the namespace. They are in charge of delivering a service that resolves the namespace. Matt Levine likes to write about different concepts of business ownership, such as... - You own all the company's stock. - You are legally listed as the owner on a piece of paper somewhere. - You know all the company passwords. - Everyone at the company recognizes your authority. - You have the keys to the office. All of those are more or less independent of each other and give you different kinds of control. In a very real sense, if you resolve the namespace, then you own the namespace.
- scarejunba 8y agoSure, in the sense that GitHub owns my code. But if Microsoft take the stuff in my private repo and sell it to someone else, I'm going to kick up a fuss.