Why Your .com.au Doesn't Belong to You
You registered your domain. You paid for it. You've renewed it every year for the past decade. You built your website on it, your email on it, your entire digital presence on it. Surely that means you own it?
You don't. You never did.
THE LEASE YOU NEVER READ.
Every domain on the traditional internet — every .com, every .com.au, every .net — is a lease. You pay an annual fee to a registrar, who pays a fee to a registry, who operates under a license from an authority that can change the rules at any time. You are not at the top of this chain. You are at the bottom.
"One missed payment. One lapsed credit card. One forgotten renewal email in your spam folder. And the address you built your identity on is gone — often within hours."
Domain squatters watch expiry lists in real time. Automated bots snap up lapsed domains within minutes. The name you spent years building value into becomes someone else's asset overnight.
IT GETS WORSE.
Even if you don't miss a renewal, you're still not safe. Registrars get acquired. Registries change their policies. The authority that granted your TLD can revoke it.
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WHAT PERMANENT ACTUALLY MEANS.
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