| > 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. |