I picked up hairygum.com a few years back as a joke for a friend who like to play the hairy gum trick in his high school days.
Strange domain names that developers bought
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#152I bought derivadev.com about 6 years ago - I was going to create a site that was just full of (working) code snippets for all of the little problems I've had to solve over the years (think stackoverflow without the comments and wrong answers).
As with many other things, I never got around to making it...
edited to add: Since most of my development work seems to be a derivative of some earlier project, it seemed apt
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#153I bought a few cool domains over the past couple of years for side projects: wrestle.buzz, scots.app, jazzkeys.fyi and jamieonkeys.dev. My favourite (joke) domain is Marco Arment’s bad.coffee :D
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#154I wish I were this creative; I've mostly bought domains that are variations of my name/last name, and the only one I haven't let die is my usual username luord.com
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#155I used to work for a domain registrar, and was constantly buying new domains to test things out. I've since let almost all of them lapse. I think my favorite was "gravlaxandfailure.com" (an Archer reference).
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#156I 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.
The “B” in Lyndon B Johnson stands for blo… never mind.
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#157I 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.
I got a Cease & Desist from Chuck Norris back in the iPhoneOS 2 era for having a jokes app that listed Chuck Norris facts (among other categories of jokes). They also had Apple take my app down. I got it back up by listing Charles Gnorris facts instead.
LBJ currently resides in the Horseshoe Nebula, so luckily it will take many years before he finds out, so hopefully I don’t get a cease and desist anytime soon!
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#158If you want even stranger TLDs, look at OpenNIC: https://www.opennic.org/projects/ There's all sorts of weird gTLDs: https://www.opennic.chan/ https://be.libre/ You can create your own gTLD as long as you follow the rules: https://wiki.opennic.org/opennic/creating_new_tlds
As long as you follow those rules plus pay the $185k application fee. In addition, you will probably need a big chunk of money on deposit or in some sort of trust to convince ICANN that it won't disappear if you go bankrupt.
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#159There'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…
Wow..its been years since I read QC! Thanks for reminding me of it :-D Hmm - Schlock Mercenary is supposed to be launching a new series too...
> Schlock Mercenary is supposed to be launching a new series too...
I can find no mention of this anywhere.
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#160Some 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.
Works quite fine for me (Chrome)