Gift HN: Anybody want a subdomain of ww.com? • Hacker News Board

mrtron wrote: post #215

Back in the day this would have been really cool for vanity hostnames when logging on to IRC. I imagine a few people that owned short hostnames for that purpose made a killing flipping them years later.

> Back in the day this would have been really cool for vanity hostnames when logging on to IRC.

That's how this all started :)

> I imagine a few people that owned short hostnames for that purpose made a killing flipping them years later.

Yes, best investment they ever made ROI wise, most likely.

Re: Gift HN: Anybody want a subdomain of ww.com?

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Post by SlyShy » Sat, Oct 16, 2010, 2:12 AM UTC

Could I get e.ww.com CNAME waylaid.org? Thank you. :)

Re: Gift HN: Anybody want a subdomain of ww.com?

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Post by jacquesm » Sat, Oct 16, 2010, 2:13 AM UTC

SlyShy wrote: post #218

Could I get e.ww.com CNAME waylaid.org? Thank you. :)

Check the length limit clause please.

Re: Gift HN: Anybody want a subdomain of ww.com?

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Post by araneae » Sat, Oct 16, 2010, 2:27 AM UTC

jacquesm wrote: post #127

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #123

Jacquesm, I'm intrigued are you thinking this will give you domain authority (in SEO terms)? I can well imagine it would with a links in coming from these users. I'm not at all saying this is a bad thing, you're giving away a free service, just wondered if it was part of your considerations.

> Jacquesm, I'm intrigued are you thinking this will give you domain authority (in SEO terms)? tbh the thought never even crossed my mind, what happened is that on the #startups channel on freenode.irc.net someone asked me if I would give them a vanity domain on ww.com so I said sure. Then two other people asked for it, and I suggested that maybe we should offer this to HN rather than just those in the IRC channel. T…

Hmm, maybe we should have an IRC channel like reddit :).