It's disappointing that only .name got this treatment. ICANN should grandfather all domains. The idea that it's perfectly fine for domains to just disappear is ridiculous.

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greyface- an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Even if domains were permanent, nameservers and webservers would still disappear as their operators drop offline. The Internet and the Web are impermanent and require ongoing upkeep on multiple layers.

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spicybright 29 minutes ago | parent [-]

Yes, but if I want to pay a register yearly for a domain and do nothing with it it shouldn't be able to be taken away.

	▲	greyface- 18 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I, too, dislike the approach we've landed on of everyone placing complete trust in IANA, and having to engage politically with them or their delegates from time to time. Unfortunately, the trustless regions of Zooko's triangle are worse.

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troyrollo an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

The requests for reconsideration are now part of the permanent public record - with the arguments now there for anybody to pick up in future, it is quite unlikely that there will be a repeat of this in any GTLD registry. The dodgy non-ICANN subdomains (like eu.org) are a different issue, but if you use them you take your risk.