> Except insolvency, nothing prevents the domain name owner from keeping the name I maintained 100+ domains over the years, and had to stop renewing most of th

> Except insolvency, nothing prevents the domain name owner from keeping the name I maintained 100+ domains over the years, and had to stop renewing most of them because my income drastically got reduced and I couldn't afford to renew them 'forever'. I was careful about which ones got nuked. They were typically sites that received very little traffic and had their heyday and fun in the sun, and there was no point in having them live on for perpetuity. The few remaining ones I renew (sometimes 10 years in advance because ICANN) still get a lot of traffic and I regularly check the hosting setup to see if they're operating properly, and I check for 404s and downtime, or missing assets like images, JS, etc A domain is something you commit to. If the project atrophies, you have to be willing to nuke it. But there will always be domains which are too good to nuke.