Look, I'll say this as an admitted domain hoarder myself, but: The thing that sucks about namespaces is that there's no way to win. If people can own them with

Look, I'll say this as an admitted domain hoarder myself, but: The thing that sucks about namespaces is that there's no way to win. If people can own them without an ongoing cost, they'll go unused (think of people squatting really good social media usernames without activity on the account). If people have to pay an ongoing cost, there will be a lot of stuff where the cost-benefit to them of maintaining the domain part of those [Cool URIs] they picked doesn't make sense... so a lot of cool stuff has disappeared from the internet, especially the personal or non-commercial freely shared resources, leaving an ad-ridden wasteland behind. So yeah, I do kinda think that people should have their own domains if they have enough internet presence to want to set up a Linktree, but way too many techie people take the drawbacks for granted. [Cool URIs]: https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html is the link everyone knows, but https://remysharp.com/2016/12/22/cool-uris-dont-change https://remysharp.com/2016/12/22/cool-uris-dont-change is the better one