The name says "unstoppable", but the fees paid to a centralized authority tell me that these domains are, in fact, quite stoppable.
[EDIT - strike the incorrect "yearly" from the "fees paid" statement]
[EDIT - strike the incorrect "yearly" from the "fees paid" statement]
Decentralization in the web basically turns many "digital products" into something closer to their physical analog, in terms of ownership. What I mean there is that if you buy a Widget from the Widget Mart, Widget Mart no longer has any ability to impact that Widget in any way whatsoever. It's the same with these domains.
You buy it, it's yours. Somebody can only take it away from you in the same ways that they might take away your Widget.
> Unstoppable domains are yours for life with no renewal fees, eliminating the risk of losing a domain because you forget to renew or because the registrar takes it away.
Is this not correct?
From a marketing point of view, this means that effort you spend on publicizing that domain and getting people to remember or recognize it wouldn't be wasted by having someone else take the domain away.
From a security point of view, this means that people who are expecting to use your domain to reach you and your service can't be fooled into reaching someone else by having the domain reassigned to someone else.
There are also security downsides around squatting and typosquatting; if some people explicitly or implicitly assume that domain ownership follows trademark ownership, it will be easier for someone to impersonate a famous brand or site, with greatly reduced recourse for the famous entity.
Hmm, for something to claim to be Unstoppable Domains, why not include .onion as well, seems like that is more an unstoppable domain than what Brave is offering. Any comments on that Brave?
It doesn't explicitly mention onion addresses, but I don't see any indication it's not supported.
(Tor is also not supported on the Android or iOS versions of Brave)