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Comment by aff-vasileva

11 hours ago

Turns out “buying your name on the internet” was technically just renting a room in someone else’s last name.

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mzajc  11 hours ago

In this case the registry itself (Verisign) was the owner of the second-level domain, and they most certainly shouldn't be allowed to just drop your registration whenever they please.

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