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Re: XKCD: Meeting

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Mar 02, 2015, 4:06 PM UTC

frikk wrote: post #2

I'm curious as to why/how this post thinks the URL is (companyname.website)? It's obviously from the comic, but I'm curious about the mechanics. edit: derp. the url points directly at companyname.website and my Chrome build has a bug that prevented me from seeing that.

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Re: XKCD: Meeting

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Post by unwind » Mon, Mar 02, 2015, 4:06 PM UTC

frikk wrote: post #2

I'm curious as to why/how this post thinks the URL is (companyname.website)? It's obviously from the comic, but I'm curious about the mechanics. edit: derp. the url points directly at companyname.website and my Chrome build has a bug that prevented me from seeing that.

Neat, I didn't notice!

I guess xkcd's author has bought it? I tried digging a bit with WHOIS, but didn't see any actual names.

It has a DNS A-record pointing at 184.168.221.2, which didn't have much content. Not sure how the forwarding happens, but didn't spend a lot of time on it.

Fun!

Re: XKCD: Meeting

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Post by jebus989 » Mon, Mar 02, 2015, 4:07 PM UTC

Randall's been sitting on this since 20 Nov 2014?

Re: XKCD: Meeting

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Post by probably_wrong » Mon, Mar 02, 2015, 4:09 PM UTC

amirouche wrote: post #10

I don't understand the joke.

Explain XKCD usually does a pretty good job at explaining what's going on: http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1493

(bla, bla, obligatory notice about explaining jokes and dissecting frogs here)

Re: XKCD: Meeting

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Post by aselzer » Mon, Mar 02, 2015, 4:10 PM UTC

frikk wrote: post #2

I'm curious as to why/how this post thinks the URL is (companyname.website)? It's obviously from the comic, but I'm curious about the mechanics. edit: derp. the url points directly at companyname.website and my Chrome build has a bug that prevented me from seeing that.

dig companyname.website

companyname.website. 3217 IN A 184.168.221.2

curl -i -i http://companyname.website

Location: http://xkcd.com Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5 X-AspNet-Version: 4.0.30319 X-Powered-By: ASP.NET

Yes, it's a redirect. The domain is registered on GoDaddy and uses a domain anonymizer (you can't see who really registered it).

Re: XKCD: Meeting

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Post by dceddia » Mon, Mar 02, 2015, 4:12 PM UTC

frikk wrote: post #2

I'm curious as to why/how this post thinks the URL is (companyname.website)? It's obviously from the comic, but I'm curious about the mechanics. edit: derp. the url points directly at companyname.website and my Chrome build has a bug that prevented me from seeing that.

As an XKCD comic, I thought this one was just ok, but what made me post it to HN was when I went to check the availability of companyname.website and found out it redirected to the comic :)

Re: XKCD: Meeting

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Post by kordless » Mon, Mar 02, 2015, 4:17 PM UTC

dceddia wrote: post #16

frikk wrote: post #2

I'm curious as to why/how this post thinks the URL is (companyname.website)? It's obviously from the comic, but I'm curious about the mechanics. edit: derp. the url points directly at companyname.website and my Chrome build has a bug that prevented me from seeing that.

As an XKCD comic, I thought this one was just ok, but what made me post it to HN was when I went to check the availability of companyname.website and found out it redirected to the comic :)

I get the context, but it's still not that funny.

Re: XKCD: Meeting

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Post by ixwt » Mon, Mar 02, 2015, 4:19 PM UTC

jebus989 wrote: post #13

Randall's been sitting on this since 20 Nov 2014?

I imagine he has a large amount of comics in reserve so he can work on comics such as http://xkcd.com/1491/.

Re: XKCD: Meeting

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Post by anonymfus » Mon, Mar 02, 2015, 4:24 PM UTC

probably_wrong wrote: post #14

amirouche wrote: post #10

I don't understand the joke.

Explain XKCD usually does a pretty good job at explaining what's going on: http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1493 (bla, bla, obligatory notice about explaining jokes and dissecting frogs here)

It explains jokes on all panels of the episode, but I cannot find a joke connecting panels together.

Re: XKCD: Meeting

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Post by RIMR » Mon, Mar 02, 2015, 4:28 PM UTC

frikk wrote: post #2

I'm curious as to why/how this post thinks the URL is (companyname.website)? It's obviously from the comic, but I'm curious about the mechanics. edit: derp. the url points directly at companyname.website and my Chrome build has a bug that prevented me from seeing that.

Because Randall Munroe owns companyname.website specifically so he can point it at this comic.

[Yes, you can own a .website domain too!](http://radixregistry.com/dot-website/)