100-Year Domain Renewals?

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Posted by timothy on Tuesday March 23, 2004 @12:10AM from the alien-invasion-insurance dept.

Ryosen writes "I received an email this morning from Network Solutions. Seems they are offering their current customers the ability to renew their domain names for 100 years. Is this is a realistic investment considering most companies don't last 100 years? Given that the Internet is a recent phenomenom, is it realistic to expect it to be the same in 100 years? Will Verisign be around that long? Does this make sense?"

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i think im going to register by FS1 · 2004-03-23 00:19 · Score: 4, Funny

I thought about registering iamanidiot.com, but found it is already registered to network solutions. Oh well should have seen that coming.

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This is hysterical... by Noryungi · 2004-03-23 00:20 · Score: 4, Funny
In other news today, I just found this in my inbox:
- Increase the size of your love tool!
- Cheap drugs from overseas! Our doctors will write the prescription!
- Even better than Vi@gr@!
- Win '000s of $$$ on Ebay!
- Act now and protect your domain name for 100 years!
Or, in the immortal words of P.T. Barnum: " A sucker is born every minute ".
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From the book of Genesis... by slycer9 · 2004-03-23 00:25 · Score: 4, Funny

And thus Cain rose up and slew Abel for their father had given Abel his birthright, the domain name of Abraham.Com, and witheld FTP rights from Cain.

And God said unto Cain, 'Why aren't thou using the latest kernel as they brother?'..............

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Re:Um...no by KamuSan · 2004-03-23 01:09 · Score: 5, Funny

Imagine the problems they will have after 100 years. Do you think anyone will remember to renew the domainname 99 years from now?
Re:Um...no by AKnightCowboy · 2004-03-23 01:33 · Score: 5, Funny

Who says domain names will even exist 100 years from now?
Good point. DNS will likely be replaced by a huge globally distributed Active Directory implementation by then.
Re:Family Names by zephc · 2004-03-23 02:00 · Score: 4, Funny

My name is Conner McLeod.com of the clan McLeod.com

I am an Immortal. That is why i signed the VeriSign 100-year contract.

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Re:Dead by Throtex · 2004-03-23 03:37 · Score: 4, Funny

Having said that, I can't imagine that people will access web sites in fifty years (if there's even anything that still exists that's remotely analagous to a website by then) by typing text into an address bar. I don't know what they'll be doing instead, but I get the feeling that owning a cool domain name will be about as valuable as having the rights to a particularly catchy morse code callsign would be now.
You should print this comment out, put it in a shoebox somewhere (or a time capsule!) and open it up in 50 years. You'll probably have a good laugh. I'm not sure exactly what part of this will be funny in fifty years, but more than likely it'll somehow be funny. ;)