We can get creative. quick ideas: Send it by printed post. pass it around people to people. an email needs to be added in with some process, and can only get one TXT update value a week.
replyMany ways of adding friction to obtaining the updatable value - which a human owning a domain would be happy to do, but a squatter would not want to.
> Send it by printed post
replythat's how one of my local companies tries to force clients in. They removed auth code from their web panels and introduced complex snail-mail procedure.
That was clear signal to run, but it took me 6 months to do just the domain transfer.
> We will send you an auth code via paper mail. The code expires in 30 minutes.
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