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What's a "jeybconbe"? It's a googlewhack for this thread.
My best guess is that it looks like a typo for "keycombo".
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Nice find. Guy has a serious portfolio of good .coms and knows what they're worth, and is holding out until he gets the right offer.
Does he ever get a good offer? It seems to be the case that all the biggest websites are not on "good names" but that they took meaningless words and make them good names.
It's behind cloudflare and I was met with a captcha AGAIN. Sigh.
If CF is still using that abomination "hCaptcha", you can get an accessibility cookie for it which doesn't stop the captcha from appearing but does cause it to actually work when you click on the "I am a human" widget, unlike the normal broken flow
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I use @mailinator.com for that purpose, it's oddly satisfying to put "lolno@mailinator.com" / etc in those places.
A lot of forms reject @mailinator.com and similar domains.
Check out the MX record for meowcats.fun, for example. It points to suremail.info, which points to mailinator. I have never had that domain rejected by a form.
Shhh, don't tell anyone ;)
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I owned forexample.com for 15 years or so and saw all kinds of mail but the most persistent was a record company owner who, from time-to-time, wrote semi-deranged angry emails demanding that I turn the domain over to him. I always had grand plans for the domain but never acted and, a couple years ago, I forgot to renew and the domain is now in someone else's hands. I don't miss it, especially the record company guy.
I wish there were a site that all this stuff could be posted so we can all share in the fun. Always entertaining hearing about this stuff.
When I read reddit (before it jumped the shark imo) there was something similar in a non-tech way called /r/idontworkherelady
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But people who know and use the words foo and bar are almost exclusively developers, so they should know better eveb when typing a fake address to a random form. But it’s easy to type reflexively, without thinking, so I’m not surprised people do it.
I'll be honest, even I do this when it's a form that has an email requirement but that I don't otherwise care about at all. I'm not gonna sign myself up for spam. Sometimes example.com and whatever other testing TLD that comes to mind is blocked because they want something that could plausibly be a real email address, so I give them something that could plausibly be a real email address, like asfgjklahsfgjklh@asdfogh…
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Does he ever get a good offer? It seems to be the case that all the biggest websites are not on "good names" but that they took meaningless words and make them good names.
hotels.com? uber.com? stamps.com? There's lots of really big businesses built around single word domains. Not every single one of them of course, but definitely enough for good domains to be immensely valuable.
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.app, .dev, .prod, and .zip all had substantial volume of problematic traffic that was discovered during the Controlled Interruption period (which occurs prior to launch and consists of a wildcard DNS entry placed on the entire TLD). You would not believe some of the brokenness that was happening there. .zip may need some explanation -- apparently there are lots of library API calls out there that take a path string…
Ruby's `open` accepts urls. I can't say I've ever used this functionality.
I used this as my email address just yesterday to avoid getting on yet another list. The shortest bar joke is missing here (or I missed it) - Man walks into a bar. ... Ouch!
This is also the email I signed up to reddit with since they started requiring emails.
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Nice find. Guy has a serious portfolio of good .coms and knows what they're worth, and is holding out until he gets the right offer.
Does he ever get a good offer? It seems to be the case that all the biggest websites are not on "good names" but that they took meaningless words and make them good names.