Note that you can lose a domain that you have registered if the domain name “infringes” on some name rights of a big powerful company. This is more likely with abbreviations. Example: The German journalist Wolf-Dieter Roth lost his domain wdr.de and a lot of email contacts going there when the WDR used German name law to take the domain away. Here is the writeup: http://www.dl2mcd.de/domain.html
So better choose a long domain name or ones that contain your full first and last name.
there’s a lot of ways you can lose a domain. ICANN requires a domain’s WHOIS records (which includes email, tel, and physical address) to be accurate. i don’t have much experience with enforcement, but i think some TLDs are more impacted by this than others — e.g. .us explicitly treats WHOIS records as public and periodically “spot checks” the accuracy of records. [1]
additionally, ownership over the popular .io TLD has been contested in the past. i understand that the DNS root servers themselves are highly decentralized, across continents even, but the smaller TLDs and the registration part of it feels like it might be one of those human systems that relies heavily on norms and pure-hearted authorities.
Another way to lose a domain is choosing a registry that offers low introductory rates but is able to raise them a lot for renewals. This is especially a concern for the newer top level domains, which don’t have much in the way of restrictions on pricing.
This, plus management competence, is why I have stuck to com/net/org
Note that you can lose a domain that you have registered if the domain name “infringes” on some name rights of a big powerful company. This is more likely with abbreviations. Example: The German journalist Wolf-Dieter Roth lost his domain wdr.de and a lot of email contacts going there when the WDR used German name law to take the domain away. Here is the writeup: http://www.dl2mcd.de/domain.html
So better choose a long domain name or ones that contain your full first and last name.
there’s a lot of ways you can lose a domain. ICANN requires a domain’s WHOIS records (which includes email, tel, and physical address) to be accurate. i don’t have much experience with enforcement, but i think some TLDs are more impacted by this than others — e.g. .us explicitly treats WHOIS records as public and periodically “spot checks” the accuracy of records. [1]
additionally, ownership over the popular .io TLD has been contested in the past. i understand that the DNS root servers themselves are highly decentralized, across continents even, but the smaller TLDs and the registration part of it feels like it might be one of those human systems that relies heavily on norms and pure-hearted authorities.
1: https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7251-2005Mar4.html
2: https://salt.agency/blog/biot-chagos-islands-risk-to-io-cctld-domains/
Another way to lose a domain is choosing a registry that offers low introductory rates but is able to raise them a lot for renewals. This is especially a concern for the newer top level domains, which don’t have much in the way of restrictions on pricing.
This, plus management competence, is why I have stuck to com/net/org