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Originally Posted by fjtorres
You're giving too much value to the internet.
Out in the real world it is the opinion of the courts that matters not random folk online.
That way lies cancel culture.
If that is where you're going, I'm not.
Later!
Good luck.
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Oh, no. Not me. And I don't believe I'm giving "too much value" to the Internet. Ever paid any attention to what's happened to society, based pretty much entirely on smartphones+Twitter? That's not "on the Internet." That's people saying and doing real things, in the real world--based upon rumor, innuendo and inflammatory rhetoric on TWITTER.
But that's OT.
I see that
nobody wants to explain to me
why buying domains is somehow different than buying stamps or other collectibles, so I too shall be on my way.
@Quoth: I agree that the whole
concept of ICANN is infuriating and it does not work well. Vis: domain names--they should operate like small businesses do or even big businesses with many offices; the owner owns the biz (domain) and pays to put that business in an office/suite (IP). That's it. Not this nonsense that you don't "own" the domain unless you pay someone else for the privilege of owning it, forever and in perpetuity. I mean...for those of us with Internet businesses, the idea that
somehow, through inadvertence or nefariousness or stupidity (our own) we could wake up one day
not owning our own business name's website is pretty appalling.
Hitch