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I'm not defending registrars/registries per se, but... > A domain isn't much more than a key/value pair in a small database. No, it's often a huge investment
by efsavage 4y ago
I'm not defending registrars/registries per se, but...
> A domain isn't much more than a key/value pair in a small database.
No, it's often a huge investment and important part of security approaches (certificates, validation, email, etc.)
> You're paying never-ending rent to them for them to not go out of their way to delete your entry.
Yes, you're paying them to not update that value to point to someone else's server. Just like you pay your landlord to not only keep your apartment in working order, but to not let someone else live there.
> becomes literally impossible for them to access, change, or affect it in any way, shape, or form
How is this a good thing? Someone takes over your domain and nobody is able to get it back? You just spent millions of dollars on marketing to get people to visit your somenameforme.tld and now it points to another site because your key leaked. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯?
- lob_it 4y agoSIM swap attacks happening at every level of the mobile industry would probably invoke cool rebuttals as well. https://consumer.ftc.gov/consumer-alerts/2019/10/sim-swap-scams-how-protect-yourself https://consumer.ftc.gov/consumer-alerts/2019/10/sim-swap-sc... You are not going to be able to pay extra to make rotten to the core pretty.
- somenameforme 4y agoKeys don't "leak" but of course they can be stolen - like any real product. If you spend $40 million on your Van Gogh, and it's stolen - that's not going to be a happy moment. Fortunately keeping a key safe is much easier than keeping a physical asset safe. And you'd only need to access your archive the times when you need to change the IP for your domain or are otherwise transferring/selling it.
- thaumasiotes 4y agoKeys can easily leak; there was a high-profile example not so long ago where a bunch of GPG public keys shared factors due to a bug in generation.