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Re: Strange domain names that developers bought

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Post by michaelbuckbee »

When SASS (the CSS compilation framework) was a thing I registered "sassrobot.com" thinking I might make a little microsite to help other devs with it.

I never got around to launching the site, but it did lead to the most horrifying auto-generated by a domain squatter email that I think anyone has ever received.

https://twitter.com/mbuckbee/status/1365062949044424708

Re: Strange domain names that developers bought

#102

Post by gcmeplz »

rakic wrote: post #98

The Yes & No monogram in our studio’s identity is also the URL – ꑮ.com. We repurposed a Unicode A46EYI glyph (Yi Syllable XYP). https://xn--bj8a.com (ꑮ.com) (For instance, all versions of Safari display the symbol in the address bar.)

That's cool that that works! It does trigger a serious looking warning in Chrome though:

> Fake site ahead > Attackers sometimes mimic sites by making small, hard-to-see changes to the URL.

Re: Strange domain names that developers bought

#105

Post by robrtsql »

pontifier wrote: post #104

I have a domain that I bought many years ago. I've had people call me on the phone to question me about it, and some people have even come to my house to see if I'm a real person because of it. It's a fun one. Type "illuminati" backwards, and add a ".com" :)

Does WHOIS protection protect you from that? I'd be freaked out if someone showed up at my house to see if I was Illuminati or not.

Re: Strange domain names that developers bought

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Post by fzzzy »

robrtsql wrote: post #105
pontifier wrote: post #104

I have a domain that I bought many years ago. I've had people call me on the phone to question me about it, and some people have even come to my house to see if I'm a real person because of it. It's a fun one. Type "illuminati" backwards, and add a ".com" :)

Does WHOIS protection protect you from that? I'd be freaked out if someone showed up at my house to see if I was Illuminati or not.

yes, if you pay for a whois protection service, it hides your personal info.

Re: Strange domain names that developers bought

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Post by twic »

metanonsense wrote: post #60

Back in university, some students (or was it only one?) put lots of effort into making a thing of the "Rautavistic University of Eschweilerhof". At that time, Eschweilerhof in Germany had only a population of 70 (now, its more like 71) and definitely had nothing that resembled a physical university. However, they wanted to come as close as possible to a real university and obviously having a web page was part of it:…

A friend and i did something similar! We set up a website for "${our_village} Metropolitan University", despite our village not being a metropolis and not having a university (a slightly deeper joke is that this form of name is usually used for ex-polytechnics in the UK, often in random places, and often not very good). When we wanted to make a webpage about some random topic, as one did back then, we'd make up a department for it. I remember we put all our computer programming stuff in the Poetry Department.

Re: Strange domain names that developers bought

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Post by twic »

myrmi wrote: post #81
Pxtl wrote: post #28

There's a popular web comic called questionable content where a running gag of the author is to buy bizarre offensive domain names for his comic: questionablecontent.net boner.moe fart.computer dildo.pizza ass.golf mydickandballs.com dong.zone butt.church sexual.fish unionrobotics.net 69.bingo poop.rodeo boners.lol piss.farm swole.dog burgerking.sex powerful.dog cum.energy qc.bike rectal.dentist questionablecontent.h…

Ryan North, the author of Dinosaur Comics, does a similar thing. Normally found at qwantz.com he also has chewbac.ca dromiceiomim.us

Disappointed he doesn't have t-re.xxx.
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