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You say "you" but I have no particular complaints about letting someone who ran a Bittorrent tracker run a DNS registry. They committed a thought crime, not a murder. If their DNS registry is mismanaged, I can easily take my business elsewhere. What's next, you can't get a job because you got a parking ticket one time? Why would you let someone who can't read parking signs write software, after all?

I'd prefer to get some data on what the risk is here. Among criminals, how many commit their second crime while running a DNS registry? If we don't know, I am not sure it's rational to give someone a life sentence in that domain. It's just punitive, not intelligent risk management.



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