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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/28/2020 9:30 AM, Phillip
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 2:01
AM Peter Fairbrother <<a href="mailto:peter@tsto.co.uk"
moz-do-not-send="true">peter@tsto.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br>
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I did not own <a href="http://zen.co.uk" rel="noreferrer"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">zen.co.uk</a>, but
I now own <a href="http://tsto.co.uk" rel="noreferrer"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">tsto.co.uk</a> - or
at least <br>
exclusively rent it from ICANN/Nominet/my registrar or
whoever with a <br>
sort-of guarantee that as long as I pay the rent I can't be
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don't own it. You rent it. That is the difference between
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<p>Is that difference large enough for people to care? Peter own his
domain name until he fails to pay the rent, or until someone sues
him out of ownership. You own a mesh name until you lose control
of the secret key that certifies ownership. I am not sure which of
the two events has the highest probability. Domain name law suits
do happen, but they are quite rare if the name is as obscure as <a
href="http://tsto.co.uk" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">tsto.co.uk</a>.
Is that more likely to happen than, say, a virus causing loss of
the disk memory, or a physical failure of the backup media?
Ransomware attacks show that people do lose their data quite
often. In any case, both types of events are quite rare. Not sure
that actual users bother.</p>
<p>-- Christian Huitema<br>
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