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Ah perfect, not your keys, not your domain. I mean now domain jackings can be permanent and irreversible! Apple.com can literally be stolen by Tim Apple and there’s not a thing anyone could do about it. Another clear win for the blockchain. Resolving this kind of dispute is why we have central authorities in the first place.


The dispute process is there to solve the kind of issues that do not exist in a fully automated domain name assignment systems.

Fully automated system will only care about keys and cannot hand apple.com over from Apple Inc to Tim Apple because of his name.


You’ve got it backwards. When the keys are lost or stolen you’re SOL. The dispute resolution process would restore proper ownership via existing legal frameworks like it’s been done for hundreds of years.


> The dispute resolution process would restore proper ownership via existing legal frameworks like it’s been done for hundreds of years.

Not if the owner lost all proof of ownership, which is the assumption your argument is based on.


You don't need proof of ownership to obtain a judgement in your favor. It would make the process easier to be sure but you can make the case based on historical ownership and other indirect proof that a judge will accept.

You don't walk into a court and have the judge say "what you don't have the receipt?! case dismissed!!" -- the judge isn't a parking meter.




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