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somedomain.com is not guaranteed not to interfere!

example.com is guaranteed not to interfere (and example.org)

http://www.iana.org/domains/reserved

I believe you took their post too literally; they mean to go register some domain you would like to have (such as ilovemycoolhouse.com or bearinabigblue.house) and use it, because the only way it will ever interfere with something is if you cause it to.

I hope you never forget to renew that registration...

I agree! It always boggles my mind how people and companies can forget to renew their domain names when you receive so many email reminders now a days.

It is quite easy, the original owner/ responsible PoC left long ago, or the email goes to an barely read inbox/ group or bounces completely.

If a task only recurs less frequently like say every 3-5 years, it is more likely to be forgotten it is the same whether it is individual or companies.

> the original owner/ responsible PoC left long ago

"Person of Colo(u)r"?

Point of Contact

Ah, thanks (both of you). Yeah, I'd seen that before, recognise it now that you mention it. But it had completely slipped my mind, so I really couldn't fathom what skin colour had to do with this.

Point of Contact

If that person leaves or the notifications are ignored that would happen with any method that involves any interaction whatsoever. At a certain point someone has to take some amount of responsibility for this, and if they don't it's going to fail _eventually_.

True, there is onus is on the organization to setup processes to handle all this. However it is not all that surprising these things gets missed , like i said if the process is not repeated frequent enough any organization memory is likely to loose track of it . no different from human memory really.

My card expired, plenty of renewal reminders but I knew it was on auto-renew so ignored them as usual. Domain stopped resolving. Thankfully nowadays you can recover, in the past it meant you'd lost the domain for good.

This is one of those situations where too many warnings just causes users to ignore things. The only warning I needed - your card expired - was either missing or hidden in the morass of "ordinary" warnings.

It happens.

Decent registrars provide auto renewal, and terms of multiple years. They also email you in advance of a card expiration and domain expiration. At a certain point you have to take some responsibility.

This is a non-issue when you can pick a registrar (i.e. Route53) that will auto-renew for you.

> I believe you took their post too literally; they mean to go register some domain you would like to have

yes, and that's EXACTLY what example.com is for, this precise circumstance

smh

Are you arguing that the person should have used example.com in their comment as an example domain or are you suggesting people use a subdomain of example.com for their home network?

You're acting smug but nobody can tell why right now

in case it isn't obvious, OP is saying to use YOUR domain, not the domain 'somedomain.com'

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