A lesson in Internet tenancy we all learn eventually... Either you own your domain, hardware, software, data, and network -- or you're a tenant in someone else

A lesson in Internet tenancy we all learn eventually... Either you own your domain, hardware, software, data, and network -- or you're a tenant in someone else's domain, at your landlord's complete mercy. Sometimes it's not a bad deal, especially when it's a small landlord whom you have a connection with, other times it can be a raw deal. You don't have to own all the pieces, but owning your domain name is crucial to avoiding having the rug pulled out from under you like this.