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Re:Web3 Domain Name Service Could Lose Web Address-Owner Who... by lizardactivist on Sunday August 28, 2022 @01:52PM (#32630378)
EasyDNS CEO Mark Jeftovic had previously struck a deal to renew the domain address for another year before the domain provider allegedly decided to stop honoring the deal “suddenly” and “without notice.”

Another one in the great pile of reasons to avoid GoDaddy and other US American domain name services -- you don't own your domain name, you're just an authorized user as long as the US government allows it.

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Re:Web3 Domain Name Service Could Lose Web Address-Owner Who... by blueflow on Sunday August 28, 2022 @01:55PM (#32630395)
> you don't own your domain name

You never do, authority over a DNS zone is a service that is provided to you.

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Re:Web3 Domain Name Service Could Lose Web Address-Owner Who... by woojoo666 on Sunday August 28, 2022 @05:03PM (#32632044)
I think with web3 naming services (like ENS), regular people can actually own domains, since there is no service provider besides the blockchain
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Re:Web3 Domain Name Service Could Lose Web Address-Owner Who... by blueflow on Monday August 29, 2022 @03:48AM (#32635666)
> no service provider

Yes, there is, its this guy, and he is in prison now and can't do it anymore. This is the problem.

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Re:Web3 Domain Name Service Could Lose Web Address-Owner Who... by woojoo666 on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @12:08PM (#32652036)
You don't need gateways like eth.link to access web3 websites, you can access them directly using a web3 compatible browser
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Re:Web3 Domain Name Service Could Lose Web Address-Owner Who... by dsimmons on Sunday August 28, 2022 @02:45PM (#32630865)
This.

Regardless of how you feel about "web3", I think most people (especially in technology) should see this as a problem and aspire to a brighter future where governments/corporations aren't making decisions about what people can and can't see on the web, especially when they're inherently biased.

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Re:Web3 Domain Name Service Could Lose Web Address-Owner Who... by duskwuff on Sunday August 28, 2022 @06:56PM (#32632919)
You say that as though this arrangement is unique to American registrars. It isn't.
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