According to Wikipedia, "Verisign was the outsourced operator for .name since the .name launch in 2002". That makes the reasoning yet more puzzling.

They ran the backend services, but didn't set the policies (until they acquired the operator in 2008-2009)

I want the opposite. I want links to the best quality information - even if I have to hunt down a copy.

Corrected link is https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/975017/a...

They evade judicial enforcement and try to stay anonymous. They've certainly already been sued (and lost by not even turning up). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%27s_Archive#March_2026_pu... (Contrast to Sci-Hub trying to defend themselves in court, in India, and that leading to no new articles since several years ago.)

archive.org itself reminds me of the Library of Alexandria. It is irreplaceable, and this is a disaster waiting to happen.

"State libraries" such as the Library of Congress. (Which is not regularly destroying books, AFAIK.)

"Reuse" ranks higher than "recycle" in terms of best things to do with an item, if it's reasonable to do so.

nice double entendre on "dictate", there.

Never mind "how could this go wrong". How could this go right?

Simple, think about going right

For some reason your comment reminded me of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky-uzsw0kqw

Up and to the right, to be more specific. Transcend your one-dimensional thinking, Razengan.

> five seconds to Google this and discover

...(after much longer) that it's a rabbit hole with nuance. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18481910