Why are tokens burned when deleting the test namespace?
Is the fee collected by an account owned by the aeternity foundation? If so, what is the address of this account and why is it called „burned“ if the account is still accessible?!
There are no tokens burned when deleting the namespace.
No fees are collected by any foundation.
When names are pre-claimed/claimed fees are burned (in our lock account).
So, the problem I was referring to, in context of deletion of the .test namespace is following:
In the past users burned tokens to claim names in .test namespace.
Now, we propose to delete it. There was some sort of mis-communication, because not everyone was aware that .test namespace is temporary.
As you see, the fees that got spend on the namespace that will be deleted are wasted.
I was looking for a solution, protocol level or org level.
Maybe there is no problem actually, because those fees were super small.
If people spent fees to claim .test namespace names, then I don’t think it should be reimbursed because that was never stated anywhere and they probably spent it on there knowing they would not get it back. I would have tested creating a bunch of .test namespaces just for fun if I knew I would be reimbursed afterwards. Also if I did use any fees to create a .test namespace, I would have created it knowing there would be no reimbursement
And it’s kind of obvious .test would be a temporary namespace.
To clarify, the purpose of our lock account for burned tokens is to keep count of burned tokens.
There are no keys for lock account - it’s all zeros.
It let us (devs as well as community) easily check total amount of tokens generated in the system really quickly (no analysis of the history needed). Such check is useful to know, if no tokens but coinbase and erc20 migrations are present in the system.