France seizes france.com from man who's had it since 1994

Re:France seizes france.com from man who's had it since 1994 by phyzome on Sunday April 29, 2018 @09:21PM (#16955040)

Phone numbers take you to the same phone until...

  - that person gets a new phone
  - a hacker politely calls customer support and asks to have a new phone activated on that number
  - the area code is split and someone else ends up getting the number

The phone system has a lookup table too.

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Re:France seizes france.com from man who's had it since 1994 by girvo on Sunday April 29, 2018 @10:48PM (#16955324)

In Australia, your phone has zero to do with your number; the SIM card is what “holds” it (not really. And that’s an oversimplification but oh well). And there are no area codes for mobiles.

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Re:France seizes france.com from man who's had it since 1994 by ajdlinux on Sunday April 29, 2018 @11:35PM (#16955526)

And in Australia, for some reason you still get people who change their number when they buy a new phone, so...

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Re:France seizes france.com from man who's had it since 1994 by jsjohnst on Monday April 30, 2018 @01:18AM (#16955974)

You forgot a few..

One important one is “customer ports the number to a different carrier”.

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