Comment The system works as intended... (Score 1) 165
... it's the people that are failing.
... it's the people that are failing.
If you read the article, these are parcels of land that no one lives on, but more than one people *own*. What his case is doing is forcing the land to be sold so that those owners can come forward and get paid for it. Most owners don't even realize they own the land.
So no one is being *forced out of their homes*. Basically they are getting money they didn't realize they had.
Yeah, this makes a lot of sense. Let's sue VeriSign because someone thinks the management of
Makes you question motivations.
-Todd
And on what basis do you think the price should be going down? The price has gone up for the last 2 years, but that's still only a total of 14% over the last 10 years. And not only that, the increase has only be a total of $0.86, which is even less significant when you compare it to the price of a registration (given that we ignore the folks who use domain registrations as a loss leader for other products).
The price of compute power may be going down, but the number of registrations and queries is only going up. In addition, the attacks on the infrastructure are only increasing and getting more sophisticated. And you can't ignore inflation as well. So why should the price of domains go down when the price of most other things go up over time?
-Todd
That assumes you trust the NSA.Didn't the NSA put out a distro specifically for high security applications a few years ago??
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