One permanent address

Why people expect one

Because everywhere else works that way. A domain name is stable for years, and the whole clearnet habit of bookmarking rests on that. Arriving here, people look for the equivalent and assume that not finding one means they have looked in the wrong place.

Why a permanent address would be worse

• A stable address is a stable target. It can be flooded indefinitely by anyone who wants to, with no way to move out of the way.
• It gets built into every phishing kit permanently. An attacker who constructs a convincing clone around a fixed string never has to update anything.
• It accumulates junk. Scrapers, dead bookmarks and abandoned directories send more traffic to an old address every year, and none of it is people.
• It teaches the habit that gets people caught. Somebody who has typed the same string for two years stops checking, and the entire attack against them is a string differing somewhere in the middle.

What actually exists

Several addresses at once, with new ones introduced before old ones are retired, so there is an overlap during which both work. The overlap is the design. It exists so that somebody who checks in once a month sees the old and new lists at the same time and can update what they hold.

From outside, a retirement looks identical to an outage for the first few days and then diverges. Hours mean nothing. An address unreachable for a week while the others work normally has probably been retired, and the correct response is to delete it rather than keep trying. See the claim about a saved address.

What to keep instead

1. Keep more than one address, somewhere you control. A text file or a password manager entry, not a synced browser bookmark that hides the string behind a name you chose.
2. Write down where each came from and when. One line, and it is the difference between judging something later and guessing.
3. Compare against a published list every few weeks. Under a minute, and it is the whole maintenance burden.
4. Delete rather than archive. An address kept for sentimental reasons is one you might paste on a distracted evening.
5. Verify on arrival regardless, because none of the above establishes anything by itself.