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Re: Strange domain names that developers bought

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Post by dambon » Fri, Aug 13, 2021, 1:33 PM UTC

Having always been a fan of "Weird Al" Yankovic, I briefly owned https://weird.al

Re: Strange domain names that developers bought

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Post by tmearnest » Fri, Aug 13, 2021, 2:19 PM UTC

jqcoffey wrote: post #19

Years ago, in my younger, I thought I was extremely funny days, I bought yomamashouse.com simply so I could own the email address of im@yomamashouse.com. I let it expire.

Back in the aughts, I had yomama.be. As in yo mama.be/trippin

Re: Strange domain names that developers bought

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Post by bilange » Mon, Aug 16, 2021, 5:23 PM UTC

Long ago, I wanted to make a microservice that uses choon.to as the domain, pointing to popular shoutcast streams. The goal was to have a regular HTML webpages with the stream info served when using a browser, but send HTTP redirects to the actual Shoutcast stream source when media players being used to open the same URL. I thought having to paste into Winamp/Foobar2000 "http://choon.to/difm-trance" * was more user-friendly (or marketable?) than a bunch of numbers like "http://12.34.56.78:8888".

*: Although I was more of a di.fm Trance listener back then, another Trance channel, Afterhours.fm, still uses choon.in today as their shortcut domain.