"You can take some control over your own identity in the current email-based online ecosystem by renting a domain name"
Originally, the idea was that you owned a domain name. Gradually, domain registrars have moved this to the concept that you're just renting it from them. Although you can still transfer domains to another registrar.
I'd like to find a domain registrar whose contractual terms stated that you own your domain name, and they are contractually prohibited from cancelling it or revoking it without a court order. Basically, a contract that forbids what lawyers call "self-help".
Originally, the idea was that you owned a domain name. Gradually, domain registrars have moved this to the concept that you're just renting it from them. Although you can still transfer domains to another registrar.
I'd like to find a domain registrar whose contractual terms stated that you own your domain name, and they are contractually prohibited from cancelling it or revoking it without a court order. Basically, a contract that forbids what lawyers call "self-help".