The gimp.org domain has expired

Re:The gimp.org domain has expired by kragen on Thursday August 06, 2015 @09:43AM (#10016298)

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.

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Re:The gimp.org domain has expired by TeMPOraL on Thursday August 06, 2015 @09:53AM (#10016376)

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.

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Re:The gimp.org domain has expired by kragen on Thursday August 06, 2015 @12:23PM (#10017544)

I think that if we have a usable system that keeps the original author of a page from being able to make it unavailable, it will also probably solve those other problems.

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