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>What if you fail to renew the domain or to pay for hosting? What if the registrar wants to shut you down? What if your hosting facility catches fire What if y
by nobody9999 4y ago
>What if you fail to renew the domain or to pay for hosting? What if the registrar wants to shut you down? What if your hosting facility catches fire
What if you[1] fail to renew your driver's license, passport, professional certification, homeowner's/renter's insurance and/or refilling your prescription for a life-saving drug? If so, you screwed up. Not paying your bills or maintaining your person-hood and infrastructure is your fault.
Unless (in the US at least) you are a member of a "protected group/class"[0], no one is required to do business with you. And even if you are a member of such a group, good luck proving that you're being discriminated against because of your membership in such a group/class even if that is the case. And even then, there is more than one registrar on the planet.
If my "hosting facility" catches fire, I have much bigger problems (i.e., finding a new place to live and replacing all my belongings) than not getting email. And since there is more than one "hosting facility" (including your own premise), just move to another one.
It's not clear to me what, exactly, you're railing against. Each and every potential issue you mention has a "meat space" parallel that, I imagine (please do correct me if I'm wrong) you are a responsible human who makes sure to do what's necessary to maintain your life/person-hood/place in society.
If those digital things you mention are so unimportant to you that you don't/won't take responsibility to manage them, that's on you, not the rest of the world.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_group https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_group
[1] That's a general "you" rather than DeathArrow specifically. But it applies just as much to DeathArrow as it does everyone else. Including me.
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- debugnik 4y ago> What if you fail to renew your driver's license, passport, professional certification, homeowner's/renter's insurance and/or refilling your prescription for a life-saving drug? You just renew them late. There's a risk that you'll need them right then, sure, but generally those mistakes don't lock you out of fixing them for the future. However, a domain is easily irrecoverable.
- JohnFen 4y agoSame is true for domain names. At least with the registrars that I've used and accidentally allowed my domains to lapse with, the domains stop resolving right away but the registrar doesn't just sell the domain to someone else immediately. You have a grace period to renew it late.