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Re:Bluesky partners with Namecheap to power domains as usern... by anderspitman on Friday July 07, 2023 @01:48AM (#36627701)
While there's some truth to this, it's more of an incidental problem with DNS than an intrinsic one. There's nothing preventing registrars from simplifying their UX to target average customers, including multi-year registrations and ample warning systems.
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Re:Bluesky partners with Namecheap to power domains as usern... by tsimionescu on Friday July 07, 2023 @02:56AM (#36628173)
No, it's really a fundamental problem with DNS. Owning a DNS name is, by design, a temporary deal. Ultimately the domain name system is meant to help give a user-readable name to your IP, not to establish your identity for your entire life.
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Re:Bluesky partners with Namecheap to power domains as usern... by guraf on Friday July 07, 2023 @12:02PM (#36633735)
You've left 12 comments on this thread. In all of them you're very confident about your superior understanding.

And yet you seem to be really confused about the difference between DNS and a domain name registration.

Curious.

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Re:Bluesky partners with Namecheap to power domains as usern... by tsimionescu on Friday July 07, 2023 @12:09PM (#36633856)
Care to point out what confusion you think I'm making, instead of snidely implying I have no idea what I'm talking about?
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