# Namespace Sovereignty
**Domain:** Digital Afterlife / Naming / Jurisdiction
**Doc Type:** Canonical Concept
**Maturity:** Developed
**Evidence / Concept Status:** Corpus synthesis grounded in domain, registry, and identity systems
## Definition
**Namespace Sovereignty** is authority derived from controlling identifiers, names, domains, registry entries, or addressing systems through which digital entities become legally and operationally reachable.
## Continuity Significance
A continuant that cannot be resolved in authoritative namespaces may exist technically while disappearing administratively.
## Existing Architecture / Evidence
Country-code domains, identity registries, certificate systems, and platform namespaces embody this power.
## Evidentiary Boundary / Red-Team Note
Control of a namespace does not confer ownership of the underlying person.
## Related Ontology
[[wiki/Registry Sovereignty|Registry Sovereignty]] · [[wiki/Administrative Existence|Administrative Non-Existence]] · [[wiki/Monaco Online Gambling Localization|Monaco Online Gambling Localization]] · [[wiki/Durable Identity|Durable Identity]]