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Strange domain names that developers bought
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
>We had an event where DHH and a bunch of other cool people came out to support us. I just found it amusing that you could interpret this in more than one way.
I'm dying to know what other interpretation there is.
The main two that come to mind:
> We had an event where DHH and a bunch of other cool people came out to support us.
> We had an event where DHH and a bunch of other cool people came out to support us.
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#24some time during a long night of talking about dumb shit with friends, I became the proud owner of http://thedarkweb.online.
some day… some day I will figure out the right joke for that page.
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#25My home town is too small to have a zoo. I bought a domain that makes it look like there is, which makes me proud owner of the veterinarian@ email address. I also had a lot of fun taking a free design template and combine it with Creative Commons zoo animal photos.
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#26Excitedly bought pjg.com.au off the drop list. Because of the underline on the link, I assumed it was pig.com.au. Realised my mistake and made a list of companies with the initials PJG, pitched them, and sold the domain for 10x what I paid. Not worth the hassle all up! Looks like it's lapsed and been bought by a domainer since.
Huh, that’s the first time I’ve heard of a squatted .au domain in quite some years. For the most part people don’t try it because it’s against auDA rules. Even apart from the squatting rules, this particular registration is liable to cancelling because it doesn’t meet the eligibility criteria even before the even stricter rules that came in in April (though those don’t apply to this particular domain until they next renew it) because the domain name doesn’t match any business or trading name, or their line of business, or anything like that. In theory you could get this particular registration cancelled just by submitting a complaint to the registrar of record first, then to auDA if they don’t cancel it.
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#27Excitedly bought pjg.com.au off the drop list. Because of the underline on the link, I assumed it was pig.com.au. Realised my mistake and made a list of companies with the initials PJG, pitched them, and sold the domain for 10x what I paid. Not worth the hassle all up! Looks like it's lapsed and been bought by a domainer since.
Huh, that’s the first time I’ve heard of a squatted .au domain in quite some years. For the most part people don’t try it because it’s against auDA rules. Even apart from the squatting rules, this particular registration is liable to cancelling because it doesn’t meet the eligibility criteria even before the even stricter rules that came in in April (though those don’t apply to this particular domain until they next…
I've come across loads of squatted names over the years. I'm not familiar with the latest rules, but for a time you could just say that "pjg content site is a service provided by umbrellabrand pty ltd". What's the latest?
I did manage to get a domain cancelled the other week actually - renewed to an entity that had ceased renewing their ABN/ACN. Awkward process with the registrar though.
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#28There'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.horse
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#29I’ve been sitting on tabvs.space for a while now.
I was curious about tab.vs.space, and find vs.space is unregistered and a premium domain; pricing is high and seems peculiarly inconsistent. Here are the USD prices various registrars list:
• get.space says it’s $5,000 (actually NZD7,102.40 and I can’t find a currency switch) to register, and the same to renew.
• Namecheap says it’s $3,250 to register, and makes no comment on renewal.
• GoDaddy says it’s $3,300 to register (marked down from $6,500) and $6,500 to renew.
• Google Domains says it’s $5,400 per year. (But until I explicitly asked for USD it was telling me NZD6250, which is about USD4400, a rather significant difference.)
A couple of other registrars that I tried didn’t cope with vs.space because they seem to think it’s invalid and a third character is required: hover.com just shows search results with no message to explain why it ignored the exact match vs.space, and 101domain.com tells you it’s too short to be valid.
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#30I used to own hitlerballs.com, inspired by this comic.[0] Couldn't really find a use for it. Looks like the current owner is trying to sell it for a profit, lol.