I've come to the conclusion that hackernews is mostly programmers and not sysadmins. This crowd is just not that savvy with these types of things. I could be wrong, but that's the vibe I get. There's always a ton of bad information when infosec comes up.

As someone who worked at a registrar for a few years, it's incredible how opaque the domain name industry is for customers. Even on highly technical communities like HN, people say completely false stuff about domain names, registrars and registries all the time.

Every time I see a post about "xxx registrar scammed me" or "yyy lost my domain" I'm sure the OP has no idea what actually happens, and the top comments will be people saying stupidities because they think they understand something they don't.