Maybe you do (as long as you pay, of course). Legal protection gives you recourse, but doesn&#x27;t protect you from malicious adversaries. Shall something bad happen - you&#x27;ll lose your identity and will have to seek it back in a court. It&#x27;s a sort of insurance.<p>Also, that juridical sense isn&#x27;t international. There are countries that seize or undelegate domains they can reach at whim. There are countries that block other zone domains, mandating Internet traffic filtering within a country. Legal sense doesn&#x27;t mean a thing against rogue governments.<p>To put it security: I really don&#x27;t want to trust any other entity but myself to be a source my identities, and find any concept of trusted authorities to be hazardous. Seriously, how come we designed the whole damned network that when I come to someone&#x27;s place why I happen to need some landlord to confirm (why?) that I am who I am? Isn&#x27;t this is only a matter between myself and whoever welcomes me on their site?