[drdaeman]

I don't know about juridical sense and I'm not sure there's one applicable worldwide.

This is true in practice, though. "Your" domain can be seized, blocked or transferred to a third party, its lease terms can be changed to make it unaffordable - and generally there's nothing you can do to prevent this before this happen, since anything of this can happen without involving you at all. That is, because you never possessed this domain, it was merely provided to you. You may just seek the legal remedy after the fact.

On the contrary, identity is something you possess. It can't be revoked by anyone. Your passport (notary assertion) may be stolen, seized or revoked, but your friends won't stop recognizing you as a person. It's just that you won't be able to prove "I'm recognized as $legal_name by government" anymore.

You just won't wake up and see your password set is blocked so you can't login anywhere. Yeah, you can be forced to disclose your credentials, but it's a different story.

[xorcist]

> I don't know about juridical sense and I'm not sure there's one applicable worldwide.

The statement is even less true then. I would certainly guess that in every country that leasing is a term, it doesn't match your agreement with your registrar.

> "Your" domain can be seized, blocked or transferred to a third party,

That is trivially true with pretty much anything, in pretty much any country. The police will take back a stolen bicycle and return it to a third party, for example.

But it is a system governed by rules. And so is the domain name. It is yours to use, and will remain yours unless you break the rules. In most countries you can challenge any stolen or revoked domain in court.

[drdaeman]

> I would certainly guess that in every country that leasing is a term

I'm not talking about how it's called legally. I'm talking how it's actually working. You pay money, you're allowed to control the resource. That looks exactly like leasing to me. You can't buy a domain, so you can't own it. It's that simple

> That is trivially true with pretty much anything, in pretty much any country.

Wrong. It's impossible to make you disclose your private key without your presence, ability and willingness to do so (although you can be forced to disclose, but that's completely another matter). And, obviously, your identity cannot be revoked or seized even if you'd wish for so.

> But it is a system governed by rules. And so is the domain name.

And the rules are made by others and others may change it at any time.

> In most countries you can challenge any stolen or revoked domain in court.

But why do I have to do so in a first place?

Seriously, can you explain me why do I need to entrust my identity to some registrar and ask government to handle that? Or why do I have to pay for a right to posses my identity? I've used to live without those, but now everyone's (Google, Facebook and - what's important and what's the basis of my complaint - Mozilla's continuing the trend) trying to tie me to this third-party-is-necessary approach.