A Moronic Moniker

With this month, I expect to finish some artistic works on which I've been procrastinating, finally.
I also expect to publish the articles intended for last month that I'd been too lazy to finish then.

The Domain Name System (DNS) is a racket, and I fully expect it to die within my lifetime.  A normal
person is subjected to uncertainties and injustices to which corporations are rarely or never at all
subjected.  One may never own a domain name, but merely rent it, indefinitely.  I used to wonder why
a particular URL was often requested of my website, one which had never existed, to learn the former
master had put it there; some process, somewhere, performing some long dead task carries on with it.

My domain name renewal happens on the thirtieth day of the year, and I've set it up to be automatic.
I use the business Moniker, which has recently rebranded itself as ``built for domain investors''; I
see the phrase ``domain investor'' as equivalent to parasite, or scum.  Now, Moniker participates as
one business in a large political racket, so there's no excuse whatsoever for shitty service; such a
business is expected to make money and stay out of its customers' way, like one may pay a mob to not
break his legs or firebomb his buildings, but Moniker has injured me by failing in this simple task.

I check the e-mails sent to me once a week, if that, and logged in at the end of last month to see a
few e-mails from Moniker to the effect that automatic renewal had failed; I frantically logged in to
see a day had passed since the domain expiration date, but I'd known there to be a grace period, and
had little reason to be truly alarmed yet.  Regardless, I nervously checked to see why it had failed
only to find ``two-factor authentication'' as the reason; the stupid cocksuckers will take my money,
but have signalled that to no longer be good enough to get automation from their systems.  I'm meant
to buy a stupid piece of hardware specifically for this, or to hand over the keys of my kingdom to a
monopolist of my choice, for ``my security''.  I can't state how insecure I'd be had some foreigners
managed to ``invest'' in my domain out from underneath me.  Only remembering some heinous news as of
late calmed me down later, as at least I'm still alive to be angry at insignificant little problems.

To add insult to the injury, Moniker's pathetic little monitoring system locks me out of my sessions
for ``suspicious activity'' every single time I'm forced to log in for one reason or another, and it
forced me to use a different machine just to doublecheck everything after this awful little problem.

I'm planning to switch to a better domain name registrar after this little incident, and I should do
well to consider renewing my domains for as long as possible rather than annually, from here on out.
I looked through my billing statements with this business, and the cost of storing a small amount of
data in the DNS only ever seems to grow.  When the politics of the DNS destroys it, I'll be pleased.
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