I've read an interview with a guy who owns dupa@wp.pl. Dupa is a polish swear word, often used instead of foobar by polish programmers, causing lots of embarassing mistakes when it shows up on production. He apparently got a lot of stuff too.
foo@bar.com
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Indeed. I've owned `invaliddomain.com` for almost 20 years. You'll be surprised how many use it for testing. One morning I woke up to 30,000 e-mails from Sony Japan with PDFs attached of scanned hand-written part orders. Something similar with Boeing sending me backup notifications. I notified each of these companies about their configuration through their official channels, only to be told "no, it's your server doin…
.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…
My college's online system for everything is called edukacja.cl. A lot of people type that into the address bar, expecting to be redirected to the login page. Fortunately, the person who bought that domain didn't misuse it. I can imagine someone putting a fake login page there, and getting access to a lot of sensitive student details.
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A lot of people assume .com for whatever reason
Every single tab I have open is on .com right now. Other tlds seem to only be used by blogs or small single page sites like .io games.
I looked at my tabs. There's a lot of .orgs and some random country domain, one git site hosted on .ht and lots of national news and other sites on my local ccTLD.
And mastodon instances are rather new, and exist on a massive amount of different tlds, of course on .social but also others. Probably the age of the service plays a big role! We'll see more TLD diversity as things get much older.
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I remember reading - long time ago - a story of a developer who used http://xxx as a placeholder for unknown domains, until at some point the browsers started resolved single-word links into www. .com... :-o
Back in the days before I'd ever heard of multicast DNS or zeroconf networking, I had a local dns server set up with all our subdomain.ourdomain.com duplicated as subdomain.ourdomain.local and pointing to our local dev/staging versions of our websites. It worked wonderfully, until I think MacOS 10.2 arrived (so, like 20 years ago almost) which had mDNS support for the first time and "broke" it all on me... I switched…
Use Lan. Reserved so no issues
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#275It'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
Hi, founder of hCaptcha here. Happy to learn more about your problems with hCaptcha. I'd like to see what we can do to make it better for you.
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#276Earlier quoted context omitted.
Only that the @ ("at") reads terribly than. So com.gmail/cydeweys maybe? Or it could be just an object in a global namespace (accesses through a protocol specific facade). So com.gmail.cydeweys
Then of course the web would similarly use http://homepage.html@org.example
The domain name should definitely still be first. And there are benefits to using a different syntax for domain names than for email addresses, so you can differentiate the two when they're presented out of context (e.g. on a business card or ad).
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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.
Yes, but did they sell for $1 million? Or did these "premium" domains sell for something more realistic?
They sold for quite a bit more than $1M, in fact. I would argue that the actual sales are realistic (in the sense that they reflect the actual price that people are willing to pay for them, i.e. their actual value), and it's merely your expectations that are unrealistic. You are significantly underestimating how valuable a good one-word keyword is in a single globally unified namespace used by billions of people daily. For companies worth many billions of dollars (most of the below), a few million on a killer domain name is nothing.
Here are some notable expensive domain name sales:
Uber.com 2% of the company's equity in 2010 (!!)
Sex.com $13M
Hotels.com $11M
Tesla.com $11M
Porn.com $9.5M
Fb.com $8.5M
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#278Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, but did they sell for $1 million? Or did these "premium" domains sell for something more realistic?
An asking offer without a bid is just that - an offer. I can ask $1M for that red apple sitting on my desk. It's completely irrelevant. PS. This behavior is quite prominent in real estate prices, they're so slow to fall down. For example the US real estate market bottomed only in 2011. You have to be very patient if you want to buy the dip in such "I will only sell for the right price !!" markets.
Real estate isn't a great example because the carrying costs of unsold property in the form of upkeep, property taxes, mortgage, insurance, etc., are non-trivial. In general it's not remotely reasonable to hold onto property for 20 years without selling it. By contrast, the holding cost on a domain name is effectively zero, so there's much less pressure to get rid of one quickly. Plus, seeing as how the prices have only continued climbing over time, people who held out earlier and then got a good deal more recently don't regret it.
If I had a good portfolio of potential $1M+ domain names I too would hold onto them and wait for the right buyer to come along. I'm in no desperate need of money right now.
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#279Earlier quoted context omitted.
Every single tab I have open is on .com right now. Other tlds seem to only be used by blogs or small single page sites like .io games.
I looked at my tabs. There's a lot of .orgs and some random country domain, one git site hosted on .ht and lots of national news and other sites on my local ccTLD. And mastodon instances are rather new, and exist on a massive amount of different tlds, of course on .social but also others. Probably the age of the service plays a big role! We'll see more TLD diversity as things get much older.
This is a fun experiment. What I came up with:
com org uk gov blog us nyc io to edu
(I do have a lot of tabs.)
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#280I own a curse word (Swedish) domain and I get quite a lot of similar emails. Nowhere close to thousands per day though. Still the level where I can answer the emails with a bad joke.
Would you mind telling which word? Fellow Swede wondering.
Hej! It's helvetet.com
Lots of lucifer at helvetet.com etc :) I sometimes reply with an mp3 with a few seconds from Diamanda Galas' "The Litanies of Satan". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBeTXiTZbCc
https://westinghouse.com/ seemed to have a test environment that sent me emails with invoices as well. I asked about delivery options :S