Perl.com Taken over by Domain Squatters • Hacker News Board

Re: Perl.com Taken over by Domain Squatters

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Post by cpach » Thu, Jan 28, 2021, 12:27 PM UTC

erikkri wrote: post #8

Looking at whois history sites, it looks like the domain was owned by Tom Christiansen aka tchrist, which wrote Programming Perl, Learning Perl and the Perl Cookbook. The record wasn't supposed to expire until 2029, so not sure how the squatters got this domain.

Perhaps they pwned his e-mail acccount, or social-engineered their way to take control of his phone number. (Just guessing.)

Re: Perl.com Taken over by Domain Squatters

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Post by Evidlo » Thu, Jan 28, 2021, 12:34 PM UTC

PurpleFoxy wrote: post #17

st_goliath wrote: post #11

Reminds me of that one time in 2016 when X.org almost expired[1]. [1] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=X.Org-Do...

Xorg should have expired a long time ago.

I still get so many problems in Wayland that I plan to keep using Xorg for the forseeable future.

Re: Perl.com Taken over by Domain Squatters

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Post by cutler » Thu, Jan 28, 2021, 12:41 PM UTC

meshugga wrote: post #15

I'm completely ok with this. Now let's forget that it ever existed. ducks

Back in 2000 I was trapped in the jaws of a shark called Java. Perl saved my life.

Re: Perl.com Taken over by Domain Squatters

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Post by rurban » Thu, Jan 28, 2021, 12:46 PM UTC

perl11.org was forgotten to be paid last year (not me). So it is gone also.

Re: Perl.com Taken over by Domain Squatters

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Post by whizzter » Thu, Jan 28, 2021, 1:00 PM UTC

rurban wrote: post #24

perl11.org was forgotten to be paid last year (not me). So it is gone also.

Was it connected to something important/used? I have a suspicion that without much traffic squatters will give up on it eventually.

Re: Perl.com Taken over by Domain Squatters

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Post by Tepix » Thu, Jan 28, 2021, 1:02 PM UTC

meshugga wrote: post #15

I'm completely ok with this. Now let's forget that it ever existed. ducks

You could also try to contribute something positive instead of snarky comments.

Re: Perl.com Taken over by Domain Squatters

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Post by al_chemist » Thu, Jan 28, 2021, 1:04 PM UTC

rurban wrote: post #24

perl11.org was forgotten to be paid last year (not me). So it is gone also.

Perl 11? That's overly optimistic.

Re: Perl.com Taken over by Domain Squatters

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Post by davorg » Thu, Jan 28, 2021, 1:27 PM UTC

al_chemist wrote: post #27

rurban wrote: post #24

perl11.org was forgotten to be paid last year (not me). So it is gone also.

Perl 11? That's overly optimistic.

It was supposed to be some kind of link-up between Perl 5 and Perl 6.

Re: Perl.com Taken over by Domain Squatters

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Post by eruci » Thu, Jan 28, 2021, 1:29 PM UTC

To add insult to injury, There are ads on perl.com about "Start programming with Python"

Re: Perl.com Taken over by Domain Squatters

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Post by mrweasel » Thu, Jan 28, 2021, 1:33 PM UTC

cutler wrote: post #23

meshugga wrote: post #15

I'm completely ok with this. Now let's forget that it ever existed. ducks

Back in 2000 I was trapped in the jaws of a shark called Java. Perl saved my life.

Off topic, I know, but I feel like there's a nice little story to be told there :-)