Tell HN: Google drops blogspot.in, breaking hundreds of thousands of permalinks
Honestly the whole notion of losing your domain if you accidentally don&#x27;t pay is pretty silly. A domain in usage is obviously meant to continue, even if an organization misses a process to renew.<p>Far better would be that a domain is yours in perpetuity until you <i>explicitly</i> cancel it. If you don&#x27;t pay, you get bills, or it goes to collections, or the domain temporarily stops resolving or something... but you shouldn&#x27;t <i>lose</i> it. (If a person passes away, their estate figures out what to do with it.)<p>The notion that if you forget to pay, 60 days later it&#x27;s gone (poof), just seems like a dumb policy in the first place.<p>And for those wondering how a business forgets to renew, it&#x27;s pretty easy: the employee (A) in charge of managing renewals is let go, and so is their manager (B) at around the same time, so the manager (B) doesn&#x27;t transfer responsibility from (A) to a new person, and <i>their</i> manager (C) doesn&#x27;t realize the original employee two levels down (A) never had their responsibility transferred, because that was B&#x27;s job.