Re:The gimp.org domain has expired
by TeMPOraL on Thursday August 06, 2015 @09:33AM
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No matter what system you will come up with, it will always be vulnerable to the actors trying to game the system. Like with many other cases, I think we're making the same mistake airport security does - focusing on last year's threats. We need to put more effort into winding ways to punish assholes (the technical term would be "defectors").
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You don't have to be an asshole to forget to renew your domain name, which is probably what happened here. Or to die without heirs who care. Or to not properly maintain your RAID, which is apparently what happened at SourceFarce. Are you suggesting we should be punishing ICANN and EMC? Probably the only practical way to "punish" them is to build a system that decentralizes the control out of their hands.
I wasn't thinking about this type of problems. I was thinking about domain squatting, poaching and various ways people try to make money off people's honest mistakes.