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weird-eye-issue on March 7, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Domain Names as Handles in Bluesky

Thousands if not tens of thousands of domains expire every hour

How many Gmail accounts expire and then get held hostage with higher renewal fees before going to auction? Oh yeah, zero

Taganov on March 7, 2023 [–]

Gmail accounts with phone numbers attached get regularly locked permanently with no recourse.

weird-eye-issue on March 7, 2023 | [–]

We are talking orders of magnitude difference. Plus this is a much more solvable problem than what I mentioned: domains getting held hostage and then going to auction.

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