So glad this happened. When I first heard, I assumed that all the folks wronged would simply be disregarded even though Verisign was blatantly breaking consumer protection laws (I assume. If it wasn't, those laws are incomplete). The fact that Verisign even tried still makes me upset though. It's really annoying what several companies will do as long as their hand isn't forced due to legal or social repercussions
charcircuit 3 hours ago||
It's disappointing that only .name got this treatment. ICANN should grandfather all domains. The idea that it's perfectly fine for domains to just disappear is ridiculous.
greyface- 2 hours ago||
Even if domains were permanent, nameservers and webservers would still disappear as their operators drop offline. The Internet and the Web are impermanent and require ongoing upkeep on multiple layers.
spicybright 1 hour ago||
Yes, but if I want to pay a register yearly for a domain and do nothing with it it shouldn't be able to be taken away.
greyface- 1 hour ago||
I, too, dislike the approach we've landed on of everyone placing complete trust in IANA, and having to engage politically with them or their delegates from time to time. Unfortunately, the trustless regions of Zooko's triangle are worse.
troyrollo 2 hours ago||
The requests for reconsideration are now part of the permanent public record - with the arguments now there for anybody to pick up in future, it is quite unlikely that there will be a repeat of this in any GTLD registry. The dodgy non-ICANN subdomains (like eu.org) are a different issue, but if you use them you take your risk.
k0morebi 4 hours ago||
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not2b 4 hours ago||
I'm glad that the article writer got his domain back, but I wish we had a better term than "grandfathered". The origin of this term goes back to Jim Crow, when to stop Black people and newcomers from voting, many places in the American South imposed a near-impossible test you had to pass to register to vote, but also added a loophole: if your grandfather voted in your county (or sometimes your state), you could vote without taking the test. This was called the grandfather clause.
EnergyAmy 3 hours ago||
This sort of priggishness belongs in the past, let it be
tln 4 hours ago||
"Legacied"
spicybright 1 hour ago||
Too nerdy but I really like this one.
nekusar 1 hour ago||
Grandfathered?
So as long as it was a white grandfather URL, it can vote?
And if your grandfather URL was black, you can't vote?
Seriously, use "retired" or "legacy". "Grandfathered" is Jim Crow and racist shit.