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[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 46 points 1 month ago

Altneratively: You're spending that $12 to register a well known corporate site that just changed domains and their old domain is up for sale.

You buy the old domain, throw up a site that looks like the old site, and now you have hundreds of thousands of people using your site as though it was the real one and any information they put in the site is yours.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/11/watchtowr_black_hat_whois/

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 33 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Plot twist:

Private equity buys your registrar and jacks up the renewal price 5x.

[-] xia@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 month ago

Double-twist-back: it's not under a special TLD, so you can transfer it to another registrar.

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

It's too close to expiration for a transfer. 😔 givemoney.gif

[-] specialseaweed@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 month ago

I don’t like this post.

[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 month ago

Why you gotta do this to me

[-] pezhore@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 month ago

You can take stronk.bond from my cold dead hands.

[-] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 month ago

Honestly even if I did I'd preserve the page as is, beautiful

[-] pezhore@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago

It's literally all I wanted to do when I saw the .bond TLD came up for registration.

[-] UnpledgedCatnapTipper@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Oddly it doesn't load in Firefox but works fine in Chrome. Firefox shows this error:

[-] pezhore@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

Ah, I wonder if it's something with the Wasabi S3 hosting. I'll check into it.

[-] needanke@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago

Whats on there? I just get an access denied message.

[-] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

You can click accept. I think they didn't force redirect to https

https://stronk.bond/index.html

[-] xavier666@lemm.ee 20 points 1 month ago

Delete this. Now.

[-] blarth@thelemmy.club 20 points 1 month ago

I haven’t felt this targeted in some time.

[-] TomBombadil@hexbear.net 16 points 1 month ago
[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 14 points 1 month ago

If you don't, you'll pay a lot more to get it back if you ever want to

[-] BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 9 points 1 month ago

$1/month isn't bad though.

[-] Cerothen@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

Just 3.3 cents per day seems pretty reasonable

[-] crawancon@lemm.ee 8 points 1 month ago

damn this one headshotted me. ouch

I said hey man nice shot.

[-] xan@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 month ago

I finally added at least something to puter.group. It had almost been a year.

[-] xan@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 month ago

(OH MY GOD, SO MANY MORE. This must be the ADHD thing...)

[-] JimmyBigSausage@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago

New button: new dream to maybe kill off next year

[-] Unbecredible@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago

There's no reason to think that I'm no longer chasing my dream, that I'm being dragged by it is there? - Marc Maron

[-] Roopappy@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Never give up the domain. I've let several go that I wish I still had. They only get more valuable, like real estate.

RIP stinkfist.org

[-] Toribor@corndog.social 4 points 1 month ago

Can someone please validate my decision to pay $23 a year for this dumb corndog.social domain just so I had something fun for my Lemmy instance.

[-] Xylight 4 points 1 month ago

Buying a nice domain and it actually being used is such a good feeling

[-] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 2 points 1 month ago

/me looks at his lemmy instance domain

[-] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

Brutal. Savage. Rekt.

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