Stephen Downes

The main lesson here is that web domains are temporary. I mean, we've always known this (after all, we have to keep paying year after year or the domains will expire). Institutions have never shown any sort of domain loyalty - Otago Polytech allowing Open Education Global's Mastodon domain to expire is just the latest example of this. And as Alan Levine comments, " digital durability rides more on the individual than the institution." But maybe this is more about dukkha than domains, "the anxiety or stress of trying to hold onto things that are constantly changing." Anyhow, Levine seems ready now to let time pass. "I love keeping my old sites up and going or at least archived, but who am I kidding? It's all just sand piled up and the big waves will come one day."