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Omg.lol – A lovable web page and email address
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#12"Buy it for $20" omg lol no
They definitely should have a free version, limited of course. A sneaky one would be free for the first year, pay $20 thereafter to secure it.
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#13Thats awesome- made me chuckle. Man I needed a little "old web" today.
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#14why would you buy a subdomain for $20/y instead of a regular domain?
It's not just a subdomain. It's the landing page, an email address with forwarding, creation of a Mastodon account on their instance... there's a lot there. $20/year is actually a bargain as it would likely cost you more than that each month to run all of that yourself
A DNS server, landing page and email can be had for free. For the rest there are free alternatives like twitter, pastebin, etc.
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#15why would you buy a subdomain for $20/y instead of a regular domain?
It's not just a subdomain. It's the landing page, an email address with forwarding, creation of a Mastodon account on their instance... there's a lot there. $20/year is actually a bargain as it would likely cost you more than that each month to run all of that yourself
Many DNS registrars offer very similar sets of value-add services for free for real TLDs people buy through them. Web "parking pages" and vanity email forwarding are table stakes.
What wouldn't be table stakes, would be if each of these was its own Mastodon instance, or something else like that that actually had an OpEx cost.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why would pay you $20/y for a regular domain that doesn't do anything until you spend more money (and time and money) to make it do something?
The main reason is you have more protection and guaranteed continual ownership of the thing (depending on the TLD you choose, of course). Whereas if this service shut down in 12 months time ... well it wouldn't be buckling any trends by doing so. And if they shut down and let the omg.lol lapse or sell it, someone could then redirect all the subdomains to who knows what. Another reason might be domain trust? If spamme…
> Another reason might be domain trust? If spammers use omg.lol subdomains the entire thing might be blacklisted for email.
I think that them being on the https://wiki.mozilla.org/Public_Suffix_List makes that unlikely. (a Public Suffix is a thing like .co.uk — would it make sense to blacklist .co.uk? Not unless you're the type of postmaster who is willing to blacklist entire TLDs like .biz as well.)
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#17It took me 10s to load the homepage. How long would it take to forward an email?
Don't mind the wasm plan9coin miner, you're web3 aren't you?
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#19why would you buy a subdomain for $20/y instead of a regular domain?
Why would pay you $20/y for a regular domain that doesn't do anything until you spend more money (and time and money) to make it do something?
Because of the ToS [0], in particular articles 3.1 and 3.2.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not just a subdomain. It's the landing page, an email address with forwarding, creation of a Mastodon account on their instance... there's a lot there. $20/year is actually a bargain as it would likely cost you more than that each month to run all of that yourself
That's great until they get bored of running the service and you've now lost all of the aforementioned which are dependent on their domain.
Seems like a bit of fun. I've definitely thought even less about something before parting with $20 on it /shrug