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Register the pxxc domain variants (.com, .nl, .eu) — REJECTED

What was actually checked (2026-08-09, DNS)

Filed on the assumption the variants were free. Verified before closing:

domain status detail
pxxc.com registered, not ours delegated at the .com registry to ns1/ns2.cnolnic.com (Baidu Cloud, 106.12.x / 180.76.x). Those nameservers do not answer — every recursive returns SERVFAIL. Taken and dead.
pxxc.nl NXDOMAIN — free not registered
pxxc.eu NXDOMAIN — free not registered
pxxc.org ours, live Cloudflare aspen/patrick.ns.cloudflare.com

So the user's recollection was right about the priority item: .com was gone before this was ever filed, which removes the "close it permanently for €30" framing the ticket was built on. The two ccTLDs are in fact still available — recorded here as a fact, not as a re-argument. The decision is made.

Why it is not worth reopening on a whim

The parked .com is a fact about the world now, not a gap we can close. If impersonation ever becomes a live concern, the defence that works is the one [[feature-web-tracker-and-host-portability]] already owns: our signing key, key continuity, and the fingerprint published in more than one place. That verifies an artifact no matter which address it came from, which is the property buying a domain never gives you. Reopen only if the user says so.

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