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Re:Tell HN: Google drops blogspot.in, breaking hundreds of t... by crazygringo on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @11:33AM (#23770895)
> This would be too easily abused by domain squatters, I think.

Why? Professional domain squatters are the ones that never forget to renew, because it's their main business. And if they stop paying on 1,000's or 100,000's of domains, the registrar will take them to court pretty quick to resolve the contractual debt. And either the company goes bankrupt or pays the bill, same as literally any other professional service. A contract's still a contract.

And if you're squatting on just a few domains personally and stop paying, it goes to collections, shows up on your credit report, and lowers your credit score like any other consumer debt not meeting payments. Which, if you want to open new credit cards or buy a house, is gonna be a big problem.

There are already avenues to address this, the same as any other debt you incur. "Forever" just means until it sends you to bankruptcy and you lose it formally, worst-case scenario. It's not some kind of blank check to register a billion domain names, not pay for them, and face zero consequences...

Re:Tell HN: Google drops blogspot.in, breaking hundreds of t... by djrogers on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @01:14PM (#23771898)
Your view here is entirely US / western centric. Billions of people have access to the Internet along with the right to buy domain names that don’t live in countries with collections agencies or credit reports.
Re:Tell HN: Google drops blogspot.in, breaking hundreds of t... by walshemj on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @02:09PM (#23772593)
You don't "buy" a domain any more that you "buy" your phone number -you rent it.

I assure you all countries have collection agencies even if its 3 guys with ak's in a technical with a DhskA

Re:Tell HN: Google drops blogspot.in, breaking hundreds of t... by anticensor on Thursday July 09, 2020 @02:04AM (#23777378)
Most countries have state-enforced debt collection instead of private enforcement like in USA.
Re:Tell HN: Google drops blogspot.in, breaking hundreds of t... by walshemj on Thursday July 09, 2020 @03:56PM (#23784382)
I was joking about failed states