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Re:The Attempted Corporate Takeover of .Org by dangerface on Thursday January 23, 2020 @09:48AM (#22127919)
If you want a new domain and to keep your backlinks you can 302 the old domain to the new.

> One answer in my view is to remove the maximum length of prepayment for domains. Let us buy a domain for 100 years.

Makes sense to me but I don't think I have seen anything more than 10 years.

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Re:The Attempted Corporate Takeover of .Org by account42 on Thursday January 23, 2020 @11:15AM (#22128696)
> If you want a new domain and to keep your backlinks you can 302 the old domain to the new.

Which will only work as long as you keep paying for the old domain.

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Re:The Attempted Corporate Takeover of .Org by munk-a on Thursday January 23, 2020 @12:42PM (#22129729)
This would actually be a legitimate use of 301 - except 301 is a flawed concept because if it actually worked as designed it'd allow creeping devastation of the URL space. Woops can't use `example.org/index.html` ever again - someone 301'd that to `example.org/index.php`
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