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I believe you took their post too literally; they mean to go register some domain you would like to have (such as ilovemycoolhouse.com or bearinabigblue.house)
by thundermuffin 5y ago
I believe you took their post too literally; they mean to go register some domain you would like to have (such as ilovemycoolhouse.com or bearinabigblue.house) and use it, because the only way it will ever interfere with something is if you cause it to.
- inetknght 5y agoI hope you never forget to renew that registration...
- thundermuffin 5y agoI agree! It always boggles my mind how people and companies can forget to renew their domain names when you receive so many email reminders now a days.
- manquer 5y agoIt is quite easy, the original owner/ responsible PoC left long ago, or the email goes to an barely read inbox/ group or bounces completely. If a task only recurs less frequently like say every 3-5 years, it is more likely to be forgotten it is the same whether it is individual or companies.
- CRConrad 5y ago> the original owner/ responsible PoC left long ago "Person of Colo(u)r"?
- lowboy 5y agoPoint of Contact
- CRConrad 5y agoAh, thanks (both of you). Yeah, I'd seen that before, recognise it now that you mention it. But it had completely slipped my mind, so I really couldn't fathom what skin colour had to do with this.
- 0xbeefbeefbeef 5y agoPoint of Contact
- maccard 5y agoIf that person leaves or the notifications are ignored that would happen with any method that involves any interaction whatsoever. At a certain point someone has to take some amount of responsibility for this, and if they don't it's going to fail _eventually_.
- manquer 5y agoTrue, there is onus is on the organization to setup processes to handle all this. However it is not all that surprising these things gets missed , like i said if the process is not repeated frequent enough any organization memory is likely to loose track of it . no different from human memory really.
- pbhjpbhj 5y agoMy card expired, plenty of renewal reminders but I knew it was on auto-renew so ignored them as usual. Domain stopped resolving. Thankfully nowadays you can recover, in the past it meant you'd lost the domain for good. This is one of those situations where too many warnings just causes users to ignore things. The only warning I needed - your card expired - was either missing or hidden in the morass of "ordinary" warnings. It happens.
- Spivak 5y agoThis is a non-issue when you can pick a registrar (i.e. Route53) that will auto-renew for you.
- maccard 5y agoDecent registrars provide auto renewal, and terms of multiple years. They also email you in advance of a card expiration and domain expiration. At a certain point you have to take some responsibility.
- fsckboy 5y ago> I believe you took their post too literally; they mean to go register some domain you would like to have yes, and that's EXACTLY what example.com is for, this precise circumstance smh
- corobo 5y agoAre you arguing that the person should have used example.com in their comment as an example domain or are you suggesting people use a subdomain of example.com for their home network? You're acting smug but nobody can tell why right now