> Cool, get big enough, become friends with the right people and you can squat an entire name on the internet. What, you're the Nepalese Party for Marxists, you've existed for 70 years and you want to buy npm.np ?

I think you and I have drastically different ideas about how dramatic a response is warranted by the scenario of needing to buy a domain with a different three letters or maybe even four or more letters before the TLD.

> Dare I remind you that the whole left-pad situation was because Kik, the company, stole (with NPM's assistance because they were big enough and friends with the right people) the kik package ?

...and then the package was entirely removed, which would have been preventable by sane policies around making removal just not allow new dependencies to use it. You're also conflating a resource that's ostensibly free and perpetual for people to claim with one that's only rented for fixed periods of time for money.

[dead]