No, but you can join his Discord here: https://discord.gg/WmsKzRKC (Link expires in a day to prevent bots)
He's very active, as is the community, and I'm sure either they would know a video or be able to answer any questions you have.
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He's very active, as is the community, and I'm sure either they would know a video or be able to answer any questions you have.
Many of my awkward conversations are strictly because this distinction wasn't respected. Thanks for teaching me something new.
Registrants aren't given the option, Registrars force them to agree to a contract that waives this right.
The ICANN Registry Agreement[1] sets the rules and regulations that a Registry has to abide by in order to be able to apply for the rights to a TLD. Section 2.10(c) states that the Registry must charge a renewal price that is the same as they charge every other domain registration on the same TLD. Meaning that they can't suddenly decide your domain is premium after you've already registered it. The renewal price must always be the normal common price.
But, further down the section you'll see that
>"2.10(c) shall not apply for..."
>"The parties acknowledge that the purpose of this Section 2.10(c) is to prohibit abusive and/or discriminatory Renewal Pricing practices imposed by Registry Operator without the written consent of the applicable registrant at the time of the initial registration of the domain and this Section 2.10(c) will be interpreted broadly to prohibit such practices."
[1]https://newgtlds.icann.org/sites/default/files/agreements/ag...
In summary, the point of this section is so that unless you explicitly agree to it in written statement, Registries cannot change your domain status from non-premium to premium after you've already had it registered as non-premium.
However, Registries have bypassed this section by (speculation here) requiring Registrars to have Registrants waive these rights granted by ICANN, otherwise Registries simply deny access to their TLD.
I believe all of the Registrars have this hidden somewhere in their agreements last I checked. Here's Cloudflare as an example. Their Domain Registration Agreement[2] Section 8.6. You agree to waive section 2.10(c) by allowing variable and non-uniform renewal pricing.
[2]https://www.cloudflare.com/domain-registration-agreement/
Same thing with GoDaddy[3] section 2.10.
[3]: https://www.godaddy.com/legal/agreements/domain-name-registr...
Same thing with Namecheap[4] section 11, second sentence.
[4]: https://www.namecheap.com/legal/domains/registration-agreeme...
Same thing with Porkbun[5] under Terms of Service, first paragraph.
[5]: https://porkbun.com/legal/agreement/domain_name_registration...
Even more interesting is that GDRP[6] defines this as forced consent and not legal.
When Namecheap tried to register your domain, they were told by Merchant Law Group LLP[2] that the domain you (the registrant) want is actually premium, and the real cost of it is $1,950. I assume Namecheap simply used the current normal price, and when they find out it's premium, they update the cost.
[1] https://icannwiki.org/.love [2] https://icannwiki.org/Merchant_Law_Group_LLP
While we're on the topic, it might interest you to know that ICANN actually has regulations preventing registrys, such as Verisign (.com, .net, etc) and Merchant Law Group LLP (.love), from changing the price of renewal from normal to premium. This is to prevent something like, a registry letting a registrar let you buy your TLD for $7.99, but then the registry arbitrarily tells the registrar "the domain is now premium and the renewal cost is $2,000."
Normally this would be prevented via ICANN regulations (that registrys agree to, otherwise they lose their TLDs), except there is a stipulation. The registrant (that's you, or whoever is buying the domain), can voluntarily forgo and surrender these rights in a written statement. Coincidentally, all the registrars (Namecheap, GoDaddy, etc) have this written stipulation in their contracts, that you must to agree to in order to be able to purchase a domain. This means that registrys can arbitrarily change an already registered domains status from non-premium to premium.
The real question is why do the registrars do this for the registrys? They are supposed to be separate companies and entities entirely and prevent things like this from happening. I imagine it's because registrys can pick and choose which registrars are able to sell their TLD. So if a registrar refuses to add this in their agreement with you, then the registry simply denies the TLD request by the registrar.
# UNIX command line Russian roulette:[ $[ $RANDOM % 6 ] == 0 ] && rm -rf /* || echo *Click*bit.ly/AllTheOperators
I also recommend checking out Dan Russell's (lead researcher on the Google Search team) blog. https://searchresearch1.blogspot.com/
So most of this would boil down to RTFM, except it would be in published academic books or videos of "experts" discussing it. It would be up to you to define what an expert is. Choose carefully.
You can have that even with web browsers. These are called web apps. Of course if they're implemented to be fully offline is up to whoever makes them. But they can be.
Being QA is not that much different from engineering. During my childhood I quite enjoyed breaking games if I could. I hated being restricted, and I loved hacking[1] them. Speedrunning works much in the same way. This is what lead me into engineering. Of course one requires much more education, but I'd argue that the time, dedication, and thought process is about the same.
We started with Coronavirus, went into "The Great Resignation", and ended up at Ukraine. Fast-forward to student loan payments restarting, how many people will be able to afford it after all that? Assume they can afford it, how many would rather default?
A bubble, just waiting, patiently.
It's the same thing as reading the terms and conditions.