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Can the team creator give up admin rights on the team without resetting her user? I want to create a team for my employer so we can try it out, but I'm not the person they would want to be the admin if/when they adopt keybase.



Yes, you can be the initial owner and then add other people as owners (or admins). From there you could downgrade yourself to a regular user - or if they're owners, they could downgrade you.

They could also kick you out. I've done this a few times today. We reserved a number of team names for known tech companies, and when they've asked, I've created the team myself, added a couple of their managers as `owner`s, and then they've booted me.

You can think of the team's sigchain as just a string of signed announcements. You can sign someone else in as owner.


> We reserved a number of team names for known tech companies

I think this demonstrates the problem of creating completely new namespace from scratch. One way to solve that would be to couple the team namespace to DNS namespace; to claim a team name you'd need to demonstrate the control of corresponding DNS name, same way as you do for DV certificates. Of course I can understand that you'd want to support teams for organizations/groups that might not have their own domains, but you could support such cases by creating a "pseudo-TLD" (or just straight up buy your own TLD), for example .keybase.


But control over DNS can change, right? If you sold or forfeited your domain name, how with this separate authority know to revoke your access to the team name as well? Should they even do that?


DNS could always be used only for the initial name registration. After that, ownership would be managed within Keybase.




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