This is an important lesson. Anytime you're onboarding a new user/employee, your documentation will benefit by getting that person's feedback. What's incorrect? Where there any steps that weren't clear? Or missing steps? Is there information that's outdated?

I've even gone as far as forcing the developers to answer questions by incorporating new information into the documentation. If you start having out-of-band communication (email, chats, in-person conversations) between the newbie and the team, there's a strong chance that extra information will never find its way back into the documentation.

So they have a financial incentive here to allow the domain to expire.

I don't see anyone asking for that -- just for the ability for someone other than the domain owner to pay the annual renewal fee.

They can, they just have to let it lapse first. Same as it's always been with GoDaddy, why should they make an exception here?

You hate web3 more than you love freedom

Speak for yourself, I've used Bittorrent since I was 12. Some of us don't need digital Chuck-E-Cheese tokens to express our digital freedom.

Freedom for service providers to unilaterally extend contracts? Uhhhh

It's not the case with GoDaddy. I just had a hosting client run into this a few weeks ago -- someone they know had registered their domain for them long ago, and they didn't have the GoDaddy login. I tried to help out when their domain expired and spoke to GoDaddy support. They do not provide any way to renew domain without logging into the account that owns the domain. They were fortunately able to get in touch with the person who originally registered it, so that person could renew it and work on transferring it to an account controlled by the true "domain owner".

I personally don't see a security issue with allowing anyone to renew any domain. It's not like you can change WHOIS information or the authoritative name servers -- you're just paying to continue with the existing ownership/configuration.

Because unlike other registrars, GoDaddy only allows the domain registrant/owner to pay for the renewal.

That sounds harsh on GoDaddy's side. I wonder why they would do that? Usually, changes like this get implemented because of a big problem in the past.

Digi International embedded it into some of their XBee wireless radios (802.15.4-based and Cellular models) to allow customers to run an on-device application without compromising any certifications for the radio portion of the firmware. Easier than needing to design hardware with an additional host processor and work out the serial communications between that host and the radio module.

While MicroPython was designed to be "bare iron", it wasn't overly difficult to port it to run as a separate task inside the XBee firmware, and connect it up with internals for I/O and file system access. These are ARM Cortex products with firmware sizes in the area of 500KB to 700KB.

There are limits. The article describes them waiting on a federal court order giving them authority to execute their plan.

I also understand that they control what amounts to a substantial private police force. Which is exactly what government must do, not Microsoft

I thought the same thing. No one is going to buy a 5MB hard drive in 1979 that only stores the equivalent of 5 floppy disks.

Check your math. It was 70,000 tapes over 30 years. At $5/tape that would be $11,666/year or just under $1000/month.

The movie trailer mentioned the multiple homes she owned, so she definitely had money. Being a Communist organizer shouldn't imply that someone lacks resources.

I saw this in house rabbits allowed to roam the backyard supervised. When the crows alerted to raptors in the area, the rabbits would get low and head for cover.