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Re:Sunsetting Whois by callc on Sunday March 16, 2025 @10:43PM (#43384701)
Somewhere in the middle IMO. If the domain name is desirable it looks more like a building, because people generally care about who owns the land when it is not getting put to good use.

Websites are more like books when they have a domain no else else cares about.

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Re:Sunsetting Whois by idle_zealot on Sunday March 16, 2025 @10:52PM (#43384747)
So, maybe require official ID/address/contact info for any domain over a certain price? Or for all domains under a certain character count, maybe, which could vary for TLD.
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Re:Sunsetting Whois by CydeWeys on Sunday March 16, 2025 @11:31PM (#43384929)
How do you determine the value of a domain name? Also there's nothing particularly valuable for most short domain name strings except on .com. It's generic words that tend to be valuable, not a short random string.
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