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[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 45 points 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Plot twist:

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

[-] xia@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] specialseaweed@sh.itjust.works 28 points 2 weeks ago

I don’t like this post.

[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 24 points 2 weeks ago

Why you gotta do this to me

[-] pezhore@lemmy.ml 22 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] pezhore@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 weeks 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 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

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

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

[-] needanke@feddit.org 1 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

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

https://stronk.bond/index.html

[-] xavier666@lemm.ee 20 points 2 weeks ago

Delete this. Now.

[-] blarth@thelemmy.club 20 points 2 weeks ago

I haven’t felt this targeted in some time.

[-] TomBombadil@hexbear.net 16 points 2 weeks ago
[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 14 points 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago

$1/month isn't bad though.

[-] Cerothen@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago

Just 3.3 cents per day seems pretty reasonable

[-] crawancon@lemm.ee 8 points 2 weeks ago

damn this one headshotted me. ouch

I said hey man nice shot.

[-] xan@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 2 weeks ago

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

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

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

[-] JimmyBigSausage@lemm.ee 6 points 2 weeks ago

New button: new dream to maybe kill off next year

[-] Unbecredible@lemm.ee 5 points 2 weeks 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

[-] Toribor@corndog.social 4 points 1 week 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@lemdro.id 4 points 2 weeks ago

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

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

/me looks at his lemmy instance domain

[-] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago

Brutal. Savage. Rekt.

[-] Roopappy@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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

this post was submitted on 12 Sep 2024
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