Sure, though if you're a central provider like a registrar/ISP there are very bad things that happen no matter what you do with a domain.
Since the registrar could very easily determine whether or not the domain was in active use in the wild (and still return an error if they wanted), and didn't, I do consider it negligence.
People hard-code them, they end up in configs, all over, specially in forgotten or hard-to-change places.
Since the registrar could very easily determine whether or not the domain was in active use in the wild (and still return an error if they wanted), and didn't, I do consider it negligence.
People hard-code them, they end up in configs, all over, specially in forgotten or hard-to-change places.
$20 a year forever is pretty cheap for a company.