Account name reservations and name squatting

[sergiimk]

Account name squatting, where users would rush to register accounts with names of big companies in hopes to them sell them back when some service becomes popular, is a frequent problem.

Before our official public launch phase we need to come up with a strategy.

First solution we can do is to create a list of forbidden names where we could reserve names like (full list TBD):

kamu.*
odf.*
opendatafabric.*
open-data-fabric.*

actions
flows
templates
pipelines
examples

...

Second solution could be tying account names in reverse URL notation to DNS ownership, e.g. if you are trying to register an account like kamu.dev - you'd need to create a special DNS record to prove ownership before you can do so.