> So what? Do I get to host my website with my DNS server? I am failing to see your point.
You responded to someone who was talking about “certified original one of a kind URL pointing to the image they host”. In that case, you are dependent on them continuing to exist or exiting gracefully (i.e. do their contracts allow you to change the target?).
If you mirror it in time, you can of course pay to update it to point somewhere else but it again highlights that all of this infrastructure is very expensively duplicating an existing decentralized system but worse performance and reliability than the web.
No. I responded that NFTs are not just about "digital art in specific URLs". DId you read the comment I linked to before or did you just want to "well, actually" me and argue a strawman?
There was no "described scenario". OP was asking whether "the NFT market rely on trusting that the company doesn't cease to exist" and my response is that an ENS domain or a unlock-protocol lock are NFTs with utility on their own and that you never get to lose because of something that happens off-chain.
You responded to someone who was talking about “certified original one of a kind URL pointing to the image they host”. In that case, you are dependent on them continuing to exist or exiting gracefully (i.e. do their contracts allow you to change the target?).
If you mirror it in time, you can of course pay to update it to point somewhere else but it again highlights that all of this infrastructure is very expensively duplicating an existing decentralized system but worse performance and reliability than the web.