[governance] importance of having your own domain name

[Norbert Bollow]

Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh at hserus.net> wrote:

> If portability of email address is all the utility you see, there are
> any number of free subdomain providers that let you point your MX
> anywhere you please (eg: dynamic dns services)

What I'm saying is needed is something like what is provided by the
free subdomain providers, yes, but with a much higher profile so that
it's not just something of potential interest to a relatively small
number of geeks, but something that you get for free as part of whatever
package includes your first email address.

Also there should be some assurance that the free domains don't get
arbitrarily removed from the Internet. In particular, as long as the
person who is responsible for a particular subdomain does nothing wrong,
there must be an assurance that the domain won't get taken down on the
basis of whatever people who are in charge or other subdomains of the
same 2LD might be doing. The takedown of 3322.org sets a very
unfortunate precedent in that regard.

Greetings,
Norbert

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