Basel has to buy domain name in the Bahamas after mishap • Hacker News Board

Re: Basel has to buy domain name in the Bahamas after mishap

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Post by bhaney » Fri, Jan 31, 2025, 8:45 AM UTC

kisamoto wrote: post #16

Ahh unchecked websites in print. Two of my favourites are: - The recent (Nov '24) mishap from Mattel printing a p*rn site on their Wicked dolls: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gz91pp5llo - Or the numerous 'Click Here' or unreasonable long (e.g. https://example.gov.uk/some/sub/site/dGhlbi9hL3JlYWxseS9sb25... ) that have appeared in UK government or NHS leaflets.

> p*rn

Who are you doing this for? All the small children on HN who will be scandalized reading the word "porn" but are safe so long as the "o" is censored with an asterisk?

Re: Basel has to buy domain name in the Bahamas after mishap

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Post by croisillon » Fri, Jan 31, 2025, 8:46 AM UTC

mgaunard wrote: post #19

theanonymousone wrote: post #12

They were lucky: Not all Cantons can do it at all, and the domain is not necessarily free (e.g. eSteuern.be may be taken for German-speaking part of Belgium?)

what is this German-speaking part of Belgium you speak of?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German-speaking_Community_of_B...

Re: Basel has to buy domain name in the Bahamas after mishap

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Post by probably_wrong » Fri, Jan 31, 2025, 8:46 AM UTC

kisamoto wrote: post #16

Ahh unchecked websites in print. Two of my favourites are: - The recent (Nov '24) mishap from Mattel printing a p*rn site on their Wicked dolls: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gz91pp5llo - Or the numerous 'Click Here' or unreasonable long (e.g. https://example.gov.uk/some/sub/site/dGhlbi9hL3JlYWxseS9sb25... ) that have appeared in UK government or NHS leaflets.

You can say "porn" on HN, more so when the linked BBC article itself is titled "Mattel 'deeply regrets' porn site misprint on Wicked dolls".

Re: Basel has to buy domain name in the Bahamas after mishap

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Post by argsnd » Fri, Jan 31, 2025, 8:47 AM UTC

anal_reactor wrote: post #18

jeffreygoesto wrote: post #14

.co.uk solved this looong ago

Voters in Northern Ireland younger than 45 years prefer joining Ireland than staying in the UK, which means that .uk will stop being relevant within 50 years at most, once all boomers die.

The country would still be called United Kingdom if it contained three constituent provinces instead of four

Re: Basel has to buy domain name in the Bahamas after mishap

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Post by ycombinatrix » Fri, Jan 31, 2025, 8:49 AM UTC

kisamoto wrote: post #16

Ahh unchecked websites in print. Two of my favourites are: - The recent (Nov '24) mishap from Mattel printing a p*rn site on their Wicked dolls: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gz91pp5llo - Or the numerous 'Click Here' or unreasonable long (e.g. https://example.gov.uk/some/sub/site/dGhlbi9hL3JlYWxseS9sb25... ) that have appeared in UK government or NHS leaflets.

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Re: Basel has to buy domain name in the Bahamas after mishap

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Post by rayhaanj » Fri, Jan 31, 2025, 8:50 AM UTC

> Users do not have to worry about security, SRF quotes Weber: "No data is transferred. There is only a link to the correct page."

Yes but how do you know you've resolved the right thing, it's still vulnerable to a compromise of another TLD.

Re: Basel has to buy domain name in the Bahamas after mishap

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Post by jychang » Fri, Jan 31, 2025, 8:50 AM UTC

anal_reactor wrote: post #18

jeffreygoesto wrote: post #14

.co.uk solved this looong ago

Voters in Northern Ireland younger than 45 years prefer joining Ireland than staying in the UK, which means that .uk will stop being relevant within 50 years at most, once all boomers die.

Rename it to “United Kingdom of England and Scotland” and party like it’s 1707. Problem solved.

Re: Basel has to buy domain name in the Bahamas after mishap

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Post by ryan-c » Fri, Jan 31, 2025, 8:52 AM UTC

belorn wrote: post #10

With country code TLDs, there is a key aspect that can be good to know. The process, technology and registration can literally be anything. It can be like what most people expect with normal digital registration where you send them your contact information and a small fee. It could also be a government department where you send envelopes with proof of ownership, cash bribe, and a process where the documents need to b…

As someone with a domain name on a ccTLD for a country most people have never heard of, I can only say "lolsob". It's managed by a guy who works for the post office, things take a few weeks to process, and there's a holding company involved.

Re: Basel has to buy domain name in the Bahamas after mishap

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Post by smcin » Fri, Jan 31, 2025, 8:55 AM UTC

ale42 wrote: post #15

jeffreygoesto wrote: post #14

.co.uk solved this looong ago

Solved what? If someone forgets the final .uk on the flyer and don't want to reprint it, they will need to buy a domain in Colombia...

Curious how many times that has happened. And presumably there are typosquatters on .co domains corresponding to valuable .co.uk domains.

Re: Basel has to buy domain name in the Bahamas after mishap

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Post by courseofaction » Fri, Jan 31, 2025, 8:58 AM UTC

HenryBemis wrote: post #13

deno wrote: post #8

Still better than putting porn site address on children’s product (wicked). And they were able to buy the redirect. They should feel very lucky indeed.

I don't know/care to know how this played out. At the time I was thinking that if I was the owner of 'wicked.com' I would change my landing page and put a split-screen with one half linking to the toy (and away from the adult material), and to the other half a respectful/non-pornographic link for 'further in to my own adult material', perhaps adding a couple more hoops to minimize innocent souls being damaged.

And minimize ads served? Unlikely