You are conflating so many of the moving parts. In the domain’s case the attached file can be on the blockchain because it is a small file or the file can be on a separate storage from the original seller of domains. Plus the domain registry is separate from the original seller of the domains.
Yes all that is bought is the token. That is the entire point. I took me a while to counter it, here goes. Copies of the Mona Lisa are infinitely available. But the one canvas can not be bought. A canvas and paint are very cheap on their own. Yes the Mona Lisa is embedded on the particular canvas. But take a digital movie worth as much as billion dollars is in multiple digital files managed by contracts.
Value is not exclusive to a hard asset like real estate. It seems you keep falling back to that.
Other domain sellers in the 2000 crash and a little prior were going out of business. Sometimes the domain got stranded permanently early on, but most of the time the domains in time got reassigned to other companies as the industry matured.
There is not just one record in one place or one copy and you are SOL. It does not happen that way.
You are saying that as a fact. It is not a fact. You do not know this marketplace.