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My bad! The fees are apparently only paid once. However, since a central authority acts as a gatekeeper into that decentralized system, the same criticism still
by hardnose 4y ago
My bad! The fees are apparently only paid once. However, since a central authority acts as a gatekeeper into that decentralized system, the same criticism still applies. I updated my original post, thanks for pointing that out.
- schoen 4y agoThe good thing is that you would never start using a domain that you didn't manage to acquire permanent ownership of. You wouldn't tell people to try to contact you via that domain. From a marketing point of view, this means that effort you spend on publicizing that domain and getting people to remember or recognize it wouldn't be wasted by having someone else take the domain away. From a security point of view, this means that people who are expecting to use your domain to reach you and your service can't be fooled into reaching someone else by having the domain reassigned to someone else. There are also security downsides around squatting and typosquatting; if some people explicitly or implicitly assume that domain ownership follows trademark ownership, it will be easier for someone to impersonate a famous brand or site, with greatly reduced recourse for the famous entity.
- IanCal 4y agoAre they a gatekeeper? Do they even have the ability to stop someone registering something?