[poleguy]

I love the idea of a not-for-profit tech company... I don't _yet_ trust _this_ company: fancy, connected, rich people's faces on the website may inspire trust in some, but for me, I see that they only paid for the domain name for one year, and haven't registered the two common misspellings listed on wikipedia. I'll wait 50-100 years and then judge them.

If they don't have confidence in their own plan beyond the one year of their DNS, why should I?

Are they just fishing for $100K and then they'll possibly make some real plans?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lists_of_common_miss...

From: https://lookup.icann.org/lookup

Name: permanent.org Registry Expiration: 2020-06-11 18:55:23 UTC (First post on news.ycombinator.com)

[rsanek]

Who do you plan to trust for the intervening 50-100 years?

[brianpan]

Or, who from 50 years ago is still around to be trusted? The list to choose from is short. IBM, HP, GE, TI...

[ValentineC]

What's to say that the new CEO of one of these companies wouldn't pull a Google Reader and axe the service, for the sake of consolidating product lines?

Or that the companies themselves wouldn't be merged?

[ardy42]

> Or, who from 50 years ago is still around to be trusted? The list to choose from is short. IBM, HP, GE, TI...

Pretty sure there's no shareholder value in paying to preserve data for someone who's not paying fees and is not going to sue because they're dead. Those companies (or any for-profit entity) absolutely cannot be trusted to provide a service like this; their profit motive means they'll cheat, sooner or later.

[oefrha]

Paying for DNS registration one year at a time is actually a good thing, it makes sure your renewal method is put into test every year. Way better than realizing your DNS contact is gone and you can’t renew your domain ten years later.

[poleguy]

True. However, you can buy up 10 years in advance and still add one year of renewal every year.