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Re:Domain Names as Handles in Bluesky by weird-eye-issue on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @02:31AM (#35052604)
Thousands if not tens of thousands of domains expire every hour

How many Gmail accounts expire and then get held hostage with higher renewal fees before going to auction? Oh yeah, zero

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Re:Domain Names as Handles in Bluesky by Taganov on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @06:19AM (#35054094)
Gmail accounts with phone numbers attached get regularly locked permanently with no recourse.
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Re:Domain Names as Handles in Bluesky by weird-eye-issue on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @09:53AM (#35055973)
We are talking orders of magnitude difference. Plus this is a much more solvable problem than what I mentioned: domains getting held hostage and then going to auction.
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