Web3 Domain Name Service Could Lose Web Address-Owner Who Can Renew Is in Prison
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No organization should tie their infrastructure maintenance to individuals, but processes are really hard to consolidate and automate and knowledge is not easily shared either.
Curious as to how other people approach reducing their bus factor.
[0] https://aboutus.godaddy.net/newsroom/company-news/news-detai...
Why do something you know to be bad and will lead to many people being angry?
Why not... be nice and helpful?
As much as I dislike crypto-crap as the article points out ENS itself would handle this situation fine and GoDaddy reversing its position on this is pretty much the opposite of the argument for centralized services being better able to handle these scenarios.
Because there are rules around this stuff. Rules designed to maintain integrity of dns and trust in the system. They can't flaunt the rules, and if they did, they'd be at risk of losing accreditation.
These companies are allowed to end a business relationship. They are not allowed to just "take away" a domain without just cause^. That domain is still registered and you are free to take it to another registrar.
>NameCheap cancels peoples domains prematurely due to their country of origin - gets away with it.
If you're referring to their actions about Russia, they didn't "cancel" a domain. They gave all of their users a time frame to transfer their domains out before they ended the business relationship. Now, personally, I believe their timeline was too short - but a week is a reasonable notification.
This is very different from a more colloquially understood usage of cancel, which would imply that they immediately terminated service and did not allow the domain registrant to keep the domain. That is simply not the case, and also within line with ICANN policies.
^ im not an expert on the tos or legalities of this stuff, but things like fraud or spam can definitely get your domain "taken away" on most (if not all?) tlds
Im not sure you read or understand the links correctly so let me clarify.
>This is very different from a more colloquially understood usage of cancel, which would imply that they immediately terminated service and did not allow the domain registrant to keep the domain.
that is exactly what CloudFlare did. They manually set the domain to expire quickly and prevented the user from transferring it out.
In the case of NameCheap, while they did allow transfers out, also manually set the domain to expire quickly and failed to give users adequate time to transfer.
Overriding a domains expiration date to a date in the near future is akin to cancellation. Sure we could split hairs and argue semantics about the technical difference between a "forced accelerated expiry" and a "cancellation". But ultimately what matters is, in both cases, the registrars manually overrided the domains registered expiration dates with a date in near future, effectively cancelling them. 100% "taking them away without just cause".
I did in fact.
>Sure we could split hairs
That is literally, LITERALLY the whole point of if they are "flaunting rules" or not. You said they were flaunting rules. According to those links you posted, it turns out they are not flaunting the rules. Your statement is false, your language imprecise. These things matter.
Were their actions distasteful? Sure. But they were in accordance with the rules.
Wild and unbased speculation. In fact, there have been lawsuits around de-platforming that haven't gone well for the plaintiff - I can't imagine a more cut and dry scenario would make it easier :)
>Sure there is a technical distinction in the WHOIS
Now you're getting it.
big corp isn't going to lose its icann accreditation over an intervention that breaks their policies.
Another one in the great pile of reasons to avoid GoDaddy and other US American domain name services -- you don't own your domain name, you're just an authorized user as long as the US government allows it.
You never do, authority over a DNS zone is a service that is provided to you.
Yes, there is, its this guy, and he is in prison now and can't do it anymore. This is the problem.
Regardless of how you feel about "web3", I think most people (especially in technology) should see this as a problem and aspire to a brighter future where governments/corporations aren't making decisions about what people can and can't see on the web, especially when they're inherently biased.
So they began reporting it as expired after their client retroactively failed some heuristic that they previously let the client pass.
for a community that means that any member of the community can pay the fee, and for small communities this is a nice way to make an effortless donation.
for a company it means that any office assistant can manage the payments without needing administrative access.
When you put a transaction on the Bitcoin blockchain, it will stay there forever. You don't have to renew it.
Why not the same for domains? You put "mydomain > 111.222.333.444 signed: me, the mydomain owner" on a blockchain and as long as you do not put another signed message that overrides it, it points to 111.222.333.444 forever.
rebuking the implicit, "ergo this method is bad" part of your post, given its context. more specifically, the idea that its worse than current methods with DNS and X.509
there's a concept I like to bring up here, the Lindy Effect, that shows that DNS because of its longevity will likely be around for decades or centuries to come.
You can't jail web3. Web3 is distributed. Anyone can spin up server.
> In September, Griffith pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to violate international sanctions against North Korea. Griffith was arrested in November 2019 after giving a talk at a cryptocurrency conference in Pyongyang in April of that year.
> “What you see here is an intentionality…and a desire to educate people on how to evade sanctions,” [U.S. District Judge Kevin] Castel said.
> Judge Castel read a series of text messages and emails from Griffith in which the defendant admits to sharing information with North Korea for the express purpose of helping the repressive Kim regime evade sanctions.
> What the judge found most damning, perhaps, was a photo of Griffith presenting at the conference, wearing a traditional North Korean suit and standing in front of a blackboard on which it read “No sanctions!” with a smiley face.
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/04/12/former-ethereum...
What’s next? Sending everyone to jail who published articles online on how to trade crypto?
Are international sanctions laws just? Should the US government have the right to bar other countries from transacting financially with the world?
> Griffith has been limited to two or less meals a day, usually peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, because gangs in MDC control the kitchens and the commissary
Gangs control US prisons because the US government is too incompetent to properly administer their prisons.
The judge refused to send him to a lower-security prison (this guy is clearly not a physical security threat) because allowing him to avoid gang-conflict would "not be enough punishment".
North Korea happily transacts with China. It just can’t transact with us or with our friends. This makes sense given Pyongyang has credibly stated it would be happy to bomb us and our allies. If someone wants to work for our enemies, a few years in jail is–historically and compared to how other countries treat such people—quite light.
The mental gymnastics required for holding both of these opinions is...something.
Yes and yes. With being the #1 super power country in the world, a lot of power comes with that.
Griffith could have avoided ever being in prison had he not ignored the US government, lied to FBI agents, and then attempted to assist NK in evading sanctions.
He thought he was so smart yet he was so dumb.
The US government supporting international sanctions by penalizing institutions and individuals who violate said sanctions?
Yeah, I have no problem with that…
And prison is designed to be a n unnice place, for the longest time the Maricopa County (where Phoenix is) jail was a bunch of tents because they didn’t want people to be there. Foreign nationals got nice air conditioned cells but your basic DUI offenders (and random petty criminals) got to go to Tent City.
https://cointelegraph.com/magazine/2022/04/12/bizarre-the-fb...
Yeah, nah. That's not what happened.
He deserves to be in prison. He is so smart yet so stupid at the same time.