Strange domain names that developers bought • Hacker News Board

Re: Strange domain names that developers bought

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Post by throwaway889900 » Thu, Aug 12, 2021, 3:57 PM UTC

I managed to snag https://temporary.directory as my personal site. Good stuff.

Re: Strange domain names that developers bought

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Post by laughingpine » Thu, Aug 12, 2021, 4:06 PM UTC

I picked up tendies dot ca just for the silly email address. A few weeks later I got a purchase request for 420 USD - I said no.

Re: Strange domain names that developers bought

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Post by rootsudo » Thu, Aug 12, 2021, 4:11 PM UTC

laughingpine wrote: post #142

I picked up tendies dot ca just for the silly email address. A few weeks later I got a purchase request for 420 USD - I said no.

missed opportunity to transform tendies to dollar dollar bills yo.

Re: Strange domain names that developers bought

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Post by Wistar » Thu, Aug 12, 2021, 4:16 PM UTC

I owned stdarg.com back in the late 90s, early 00s. Never used it and let it lapse.

Re: Strange domain names that developers bought

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Post by stronglikedan » Thu, Aug 12, 2021, 4:19 PM UTC

When the '.xxx' TLD first came online, I bought 'brownchickenbrowncow.xxx' hoping to squat on it until some porn companies came around making offers. But alas, they never did, so I let it expire. I don't know what the heck I was thinking.

Re: Strange domain names that developers bought

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Post by kook_throwaway » Thu, Aug 12, 2021, 4:23 PM UTC

jffry wrote: post #99

Back when I was in college in the mid 2000s, some people found a key in the grass outside one of the dorms. They set up a website with a photo of the key and sent the link to the general "HelpMe" mailing list. As a tiny Pandemic project, I bought the domain and resurrected the site (from the Internet Archive's copy) for the nostalgia. https://wefoundthiskey.com/

Was the key ever returned?

Re: Strange domain names that developers bought

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Post by TheSpiciestDev » Thu, Aug 12, 2021, 4:23 PM UTC

fzzzy wrote: post #106

robrtsql wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

https://gandi.net has always offered free WHOIS protection, at least for those domains that support it, if you look up any of my domains with them it's all pretty much hidden. I think some domains require the owners to have actual info, and not their registrars?

Re: Strange domain names that developers bought

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Post by fl0wenol » Thu, Aug 12, 2021, 4:26 PM UTC

LadyCailin wrote: post #67

I have https://lbjfacts.com , which is a site full of.. definitely real facts about Lyndon B Johnson. I was just really bored one day, and it started as an inside joke that just kind of kept going.

That URL scans like something else with the protocol:// in front of that "l"

Nice.

Re: Strange domain names that developers bought

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Post by handrous » Thu, Aug 12, 2021, 4:32 PM UTC

wise0wl wrote: post #119

I own kubernetees.com, because that's the way my former boss used to say it.

AFAIK that's the official pronunciation, inherited from the Greek.

Re: Strange domain names that developers bought

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Post by wheybags » Thu, Aug 12, 2021, 4:32 PM UTC

benmanns wrote: post #115

Some that I bought: https://xn--ujdaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa... https://mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm... http://mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm... Why? They're the widest domains you can get within the character limits. Good for testing UI for bad wrapping with long data. Hacker News handles it pretty well.

The link on there for widest subdomain is broken for me.