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What about domain names? I have a really nice .app site and fear this every time I renew it. (For those who don't know: .app is owned by Google)
by moralestapia 3y ago
What about domain names?
I have a really nice .app site and fear this every time I renew it.
(For those who don't know: .app is owned by Google)
- presson 3y agoThis cannot happen with domains. If you were to drop the domain, they could potentially reserve it for themselves, but as long as you're not breaking laws and pay for renewals, the domain is yours.
- moralestapia 3y agoI hope you're right! (I'm quite honored to get your first comment on this site after lurking for around 3 years and a half, lol)
- presson 3y agolololol the web as a distribution platform is very important to me! :-P
- skinner927 3y agoAre there actually legal restrictions to this? Does anything prevent a registrar from increasing the domain renewal price from $12 to $12,000 which effectively prices out everyone?
- monero-xmr 3y agohttps://eth.limo/ https://eth.limo/ is one attempt of several to map ENS domains to web addressable domains. Ideally all the major browsers will support ENS for domain-to-IP mapping and the issue is solved.
- rabbits_2002 3y agoSquarespace owns it now. Google is leaving the domain registrar business.