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Re:France seizes france.com from man who's had it since 1994 by trumped on Sunday April 29, 2018 @02:01PM (#16953104)
Wow that's crazy... you buy something yet but you don't own it. It's a bit like cellphones, I guess.
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Re:France seizes france.com from man who's had it since 1994 by invaliduser on Monday April 30, 2018 @02:24AM (#16956240)
What you buy is a temporary licence to use a domain, the fact that you need to renew it every year or so is a good sign that nobody "owns" a domain name (and that it was designed this way, with a limit on the number of years you can buy)
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Re:France seizes france.com from man who's had it since 1994 by abritinthebay on Sunday April 29, 2018 @02:28PM (#16953219)
... I own my cellphone. What are you referring to?
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Re:France seizes france.com from man who's had it since 1994 by trumped on Sunday April 29, 2018 @02:57PM (#16953351)
locked bootloaders/etc... They claim it's for security but they don't give you a choice.
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Re:France seizes france.com from man who's had it since 1994 by abritinthebay on Monday April 30, 2018 @07:30PM (#16963425)
That has zero to do with ownership - unless you think the code on every embedded chip should be 100% open and accessible in user-space.

Which would be a security nightmare.

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