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Re: Fuck.com (1997)

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Post by kingcharles » Fri, Nov 05, 2021, 4:46 PM UTC

jasonfarnon wrote: post #47

kingcharles wrote: post #24

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There weren't many web sites, so I'll be honest, it was mostly IPs for ftp sites with upload directories that had accidentally been left open and were now filled with warez.

why write them out longhand, you were just using ftp at a shell? I remember gui clients in that era that would store them. cuteftp on windows at some point mid 90s, and before that something else, maybe ws_ftp.

As soon as those client came along, I mostly switched. I don't remember any GUI clients in 1994.

One issue was that the GUI clients failed at most of the warez folders because they contained so many special characters - lot of things like ^H^H^H^H^Hwarez etc.

Re: Fuck.com (1997)

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Post by RNCTX » Fri, Nov 05, 2021, 4:51 PM UTC

thesuitonym wrote: post #96

RNCTX wrote: post #87

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Blackrock and Bloomberg would be squatting on the entire web, and we'd be back to using BBS / newsgroups to get away from them.

I mean we currently have Google and Facebook clawing the entire web, and plenty of us are using BBSes and newsgroups to get away from them.

Can't say you're wrong. As with any giant corporation, their guilt is presumed, it's just a consideration of degrees.

Re: Fuck.com (1997)

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Post by BeFlatXIII » Fri, Nov 05, 2021, 5:01 PM UTC

May we all reminisce on typing in random words and then appending .com or .net to see where it would take you (and if the school's internet filter would block it, in which case you'd note to look it up at the public library later)?

Re: Fuck.com (1997)

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Post by NetOpWibby » Fri, Nov 05, 2021, 8:17 PM UTC

savef wrote: post #90

NetOpWibby wrote: post #88

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Come to think of it, I’ve never seen a plain IP used with HTTPS.

Here's one example that came to mind: https://1.1.1.1/

OF COURSE

Haha, thanks!

Re: Fuck.com (1997)

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Post by solarkraft » Sat, Nov 06, 2021, 12:12 PM UTC

sshine wrote: post #75

donmcronald wrote: post #67

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That would bother me too since they're only buying it to resell. Over a decade ago I emailed a domainer/squatter to ask about a domain that matches my sister's married surname. It was the ccTLD version, not even the .com. At the time, they told me they didn't accept offers of less than $2k, so I offered them $100 as an insult and forgot about it. 8 years later I get a random email asking me if I'm still interested in…

There is. Adding a massive amount of TLDs. I’ve wanted my family name ccTLD, but it’s been occupied by a gospel choir. Fortunately there are hundreds to choose from now.

This is the “just build more housing” argument with similar issues. The number of desirable names is finite and squatting is very scalable. One way of reducing squatting may be, hm ... making it less scalable.

Re: Fuck.com (1997)

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Post by sintezcs » Sat, Nov 06, 2021, 6:45 PM UTC

I successfully registered х%йпи%даджигурда.рф when Cyrillic .рф zone opened. Unfortunately, it was shut down a couple of months later by the registrar, but it was live for at least those couple of months :)

Re: Fuck.com (1997)

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Post by donmcronald » Sun, Nov 07, 2021, 2:39 AM UTC

NetOpWibby wrote: post #89

sshine wrote: post #75

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There is. Adding a massive amount of TLDs. I’ve wanted my family name ccTLD, but it’s been occupied by a gospel choir. Fortunately there are hundreds to choose from now.

A project called Handshake[0] may be of interest to you. Namebase[1] is a popular on-ramp but you could also obtain your own TLDs via a desktop wallet[2]. There’s even a lightweight resolver[3] to access Handshake domains. The project is slowly gaining traction, what with Namecheap and Porkbun getting in on it too. - [0]: https://handshake.org - [1]: https://namebase.io - [2]: https://bobwallet.io - [3]: https://impe…

I looked at buying one of these a while ago. The AML/KYC hoops you need to jump through to buy HNS are a deal killer for me. I'd literally pay 20x what they want if I could use a normal credit card.

Re: Fuck.com (1997)

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Post by NetOpWibby » Sun, Nov 07, 2021, 3:11 AM UTC

donmcronald wrote: post #107

NetOpWibby wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A project called Handshake[0] may be of interest to you. Namebase[1] is a popular on-ramp but you could also obtain your own TLDs via a desktop wallet[2]. There’s even a lightweight resolver[3] to access Handshake domains. The project is slowly gaining traction, what with Namecheap and Porkbun getting in on it too. - [0]: https://handshake.org - [1]: https://namebase.io - [2]: https://bobwallet.io - [3]: https://impe…

I looked at buying one of these a while ago. The AML/KYC hoops you need to jump through to buy HNS are a deal killer for me. I'd literally pay 20x what they want if I could use a normal credit card.

I've been KYC'd on Namebase since its inception so I'm all set.

I do agree that the KYC requirements are trash. A while ago I figured out I could buy without KYC via MEXC and then send the HNS to ViaWallet.

Re: Fuck.com (1997)

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Post by dleslie » Mon, Nov 08, 2021, 1:38 AM UTC

jasonfarnon wrote: post #47

kingcharles wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There weren't many web sites, so I'll be honest, it was mostly IPs for ftp sites with upload directories that had accidentally been left open and were now filled with warez.

why write them out longhand, you were just using ftp at a shell? I remember gui clients in that era that would store them. cuteftp on windows at some point mid 90s, and before that something else, maybe ws_ftp.

My experience predates the existence of cuteftp.

I was using gopher and telnet before Windows 3.1; I remember when HTTP arrived and ruined everything.