> for now a domain you "own" is just an entry in someone else's ledger
Well yes, that is literally what you are purchasing after all. Else alternative DNS schemes such as GNS would presumably be made illegal in the event they shadowed any "owned" mark. I don't think anyone would want to live in a world where adding an entry to your hosts file was a crime.
ICANN DNS can be approximately described as renting an entry in a global equivalent of the yellow pages.
That said, strong digital ownership laws would be a good thing. Publishers (games, books, music, etc) shouldn't be permitted to yank titles you paid for on the basis that you only licensed them. Neither should registries of names, ICANN or otherwise.
Well yes, that is literally what you are purchasing after all. Else alternative DNS schemes such as GNS would presumably be made illegal in the event they shadowed any "owned" mark. I don't think anyone would want to live in a world where adding an entry to your hosts file was a crime.
ICANN DNS can be approximately described as renting an entry in a global equivalent of the yellow pages.
That said, strong digital ownership laws would be a good thing. Publishers (games, books, music, etc) shouldn't be permitted to yank titles you paid for on the basis that you only licensed them. Neither should registries of names, ICANN or otherwise.