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Domain names look a whole lot like rental property. They're hardly allodium.

• mindslight 15y ago
  So? The same is true for real estate and most everything else with a central registry. Jotform is paid up with ICANN through 2020. Even a commercial tenant can't be evicted instantaneously.
  • literalusername 15y ago
    Agreed. My only point was that, contrary to your original assertion, domain names do not look anything like property owned by the registrant. That said, I do not support the confiscation, and I hope Jotform sues and wins. I'm not holding my breath, though. I would love to see a DNS replacement that is not only decentralized but allodial.
    • mindslight 15y ago
      Is it possible for any distributed human-meaningful name to be allodial? You're always at the mercy of a network of nodes to agree that you hold a name, and probably have to incentivize them even. A non-human-meaningful public-key based name would be allodial (even if you're relying on others to distribute that fact). The latter system could certainly replace many uses of DNS, but doesn't solve the introduction problem (granted, introductions could be needed a lot less, ie Jotform forms would still be working, as they wouldn't require a reintroduction to 'jotform.com' for every visit) (You're right in that I was incorrectly implying a domain name would be property owned by the registrant. But it certainly could be considered property that the registrant is currently in possession of)
      • literalusername 15y ago
        I hope the answer is "yes", but it's a challenging question.