Automatically respond to scam calls and emails, keeping scammers overwhelmed with useless work.
Since his acquisition shenanigans started, I felt like that was like a spoiled billionaire kid who didn't get the reverence he thought he deserved from a waiter, then proceeded to buy the restauran chain just to close it.
As a funny coincidence, your post showed on my home page 2 posts apart from this one:
https://lemmy.world/post/2021471
(Microsoft forcing migration from the default mail app)
When vlemmy.net disappeared (and it was the only one I had registered to), I registered at lemmy.world, sh.itjust.works, and while I was trying to register at lemmy.ML, I registered at feddit.NL by mistake. (then I requested a login at lemmy.ml, but never got a confirmation).
At the moment feddit.NL is the only instance I have a login at that I can use.
That was a happy mistake :-)
Maybe the problem is me. If feddit.nl goes down, I'll know for sure.
I don't think it is a payment issue. At least in Brazil (where I live), a registration (which can be done directly with the .br registrar, not necessarily third parties) costs less than 10 USD a year.
vlemmy.net was registered less than 2 months ago, for 5 years. I suppose (hope) it was already paid for 5 years.
it's strange that it's parked at a dynamic dns service though
Well, not being owned by a profit-driven evil stab-us-in-the-back company going IPO has advantages and disadvantages :-(
Really weird.
dynu.com is a dynamic dns service. I don't think the maintainer of vlemmy.net would be running the instance from a dhcp (variable) IP, to justify using dynamic dns.
Or is it usual for people to run instances from their homes using common ISP subscriber variable IP addresses?
Even more strange that it was registered just last month, according to whois. Is vlemmy.net that new?
Well, of course, the Versys has 17" front wheels, and everybody knows that this makes a bike absolutely incapable of going off pavement!
My V-Strom has 36000km, about 35995km on pavement, and oh boy, I certainly wouldn't have survived those 5km of light gravel and dirt if it wasn't for the 19" front wheels! Certainly couldn't do it on a Versys.