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Re:'I want your Instagram account': a deadly campaign over c... by nl on Sunday July 17, 2022 @08:50PM (#32133252)
This accomplishing precisely nothing except moving the problem to another layer.

> A man who enlisted his cousin to break into a Cedar Rapids man’s home and order him at gunpoint to transfer an Internet domain was sentenced today to 14 years in federal prison.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndia/pr/social-media-influencer...

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Re:'I want your Instagram account': a deadly campaign over c... by egypturnash on Sunday July 17, 2022 @10:54PM (#32134063)
It greatly expands the space. If you’re content being @[email protected] then you’re fine. If you insist on being @[email protected] then it’s still a limited resource to be fought over. But you might also be happy with @[email protected] and find that to be available, thanks to the expansion in TLDs.
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